Arsenal\u2019s first defeat of the season brought a bleak assessment from inside the dressing room after Saturday\u2019s 3-0 loss to Brighton & Hove Albion. Bruno Guimar\u00e3es said the reaction among the players was immediate, with the standard of the performance falling well below what was expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the first throw, you could sense it, it was so clear,\u201d Arteta lamented, whispering through his postmatch press conference with a thinly veiled sense of fury. The mood was not much brighter in the locker room around the corner.<\/p>\n
Guimar\u00e3es described the match as one to move past, but not before stressing how badly Arsenal had fallen short. \u201cI think today is a day to forget,\u201d he said after his first Premier League start for the club. \u201cEverything we tried didn\u2019t work. Credit to them [Brighton] as well but we can\u2019t accept this here.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think in the changing room, everyone was complaining about ourselves, about the level we played today. Like I said, it\u2019s not acceptable. A very bad day in the office.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arteta viewed the defeat as a failure to meet the demands of the game. Brighton\u2019s pressing and direct play repeatedly forced Arsenal into errors, and the Arsenal manager said his side had not matched the basics required in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrighton were another gear up from us,\u201d Arteta fumed. \u201cWe were extremely poor technically and not respecting the game. And from our side there were certain basics that you need to accomplish in football, especially in the Premier League, that we were very far from.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIn the first duel, the second ball, that put the game, especially how direct they were, in a really difficult place for us,\u201d Arteta added. \u201cOn top of that, when we did regain the ball, especially in our own half, the amount of technical errors that we did and we didn\u2019t respect any principle of play that you have to get out of those man-to-man situations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guimar\u00e3es was among the most disappointing performers in red, especially given the expectations behind his summer move. Recognising his part in the collapse, he then issued a message of apology to the Arsenal fanbase and promised better days ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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