Arteta – 'We have to do more' Video News

For the second time in a week, Mikel Arteta was left to rue missed opportunities in a cup game at home.

After we lost the first-leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final against Newcastle on Tuesday night, despite creating plenty of chances, we were knocked out of the FA Cup by Manchester United, who held on for penalties after being reduced to ten men for half the game.

“I’m pretty amazed how we haven’t won the game comfortably,” he said at full-time. “With everything that we’ve done, the way we played, dominated the game, the amount of chances that we generated, big open chances and the fact that we didn’t concede anything.

“It’s a very hard one to take because, as I said to them, I love you guys because you are a joy to work with every single day. Individually and as a team, incredible after two or three days, how you perform again after a defeat that you didn’t deserve at all because you were much better than the opposition as well.

“Today we will take it again and we’ll go to Wednesday, another opportunity for us, probably at the right time as well to get what we deserve, perform again and give our supporters what they deserve as well.”

He said he will be looking to pick his players up quickly for the next game, against Tottenham back in the Premier League on Wednesday, and is looking for them to be even more dominant next time out.

“I don’t know what else to ask of them to be fair, because we played two big teams that are very difficult to play against and the difference between the two teams was huge, but we didn’t put it in the scoreline.

“That’s the reality, we have to accept but we know the reality isn’t going to change by doing much less. We have to do that or more, and then the probability to win will be much better again.

“We missed big, big chances; we missed a penalty, we missed three or four big open chances without conceding anything, and it’s difficult to understand. Easy, support our players and make sure that we go again.”

There is also concern over the availability of Gabriel Jesus, who was stretchered off in the first half. The boss said: “Obviously have the bad news about Gabby again, because it’s not looking good, we’re quite worried about it, but again, we’ll be here on Wednesday