and mcelhatton mikkel. Yeah, it's certainly a legend mikkel.
Well, I'll get the first question if you don't mind then
Tim. I've got a question.
Wow. Second half performance of your dreams
and at first, I thought, the we're still were really good.
Obviously, we have some big chances that we didn't convert
and I one single action where we didn't defend direct play
well enough and we go co and the referee decided to
tour dependency. But
Austria where you see the reaction of the crowd after
conceding a goal. Go, which is really strange
and I should they believe that they have in the team and what
the team is transmitting to them. So the second half
I think we show real composure and maturity and
and Clarity the way, we wanted to
attack them because we knew that
that's the way we wanted. They wanted to defend and
I think we decided to meet again,
under you to look. Things are changing the football club. We
were, we were sitting up there and we saw that we felt that
goal goes in. They still are behind you. And I guess
when we look at the first half versus the second half,
when you go, A half time, do you have to change a lot
because things changed? But do you have to say a lot to
the players? We have to change those things,
especially one in defending that was critical for what they
wanted to do against us, and we corrected that. And then
obviously, we attacked better certain spaces that they were
in preventing and we wanted to exploit. But that's
the talent of the place. Yeah, absolutely.
With capital Jesus out.
And a lot of talk about, oh, this could be the end of also
and the doubts, and that was Eddie in Katia, an easy
decision for you to make. Up to playing tonight very easy
decision. He shows every day, he showed last year, someone
had two games that we can trust him.
I just gave him a big hug because I think he deserves
a big time. They go the here score the way he performed or
only the goal. But overall his performance I think was really,
really good.
When I look back to last season start of last season and
the number here live to see your team play today with Incredible
amount of creativity and quality.
How have you done it? How have you brought this team with
these young players to be? So Groove, Of with the ball and
without the ball from movements in Midfield from from
fullbacks, pushing inside.
I mean, is it just on the training ground
developing? Well, is very good. We will, we have really good
players. That's first of all and we have very good people,
I think starting from the people at the top that in difficult
moments, they stick to
the plan and what we want to do, and then that generated
a big unity. And then obviously the moment that covid allowed
us to have some crowds and the crowd started to feel part of
this team.
I think that's when, when the team transform and then
Obviously, there are things that you can do with certain
players, and, and I think the recruitment party's been
capital on that
because I get the impression you would have. Found the last
six weeks, watching the World Cup, pretty difficult, wanting
to get the season back up and running. Just talk us through
how it went for you back here having to watch it on hope. No
one got injured and everyone just came back and hurry
up the clock. Well first of all, I had some time off that
it was needed as well to break it up and then it was really
intense. I watch football, I watch a lot of the work up but
we were really focused on the place. We had here. I'm
preparing how the plays were going to get back because
obviously
psychologically they had big expectations. All of them. They
saw that he could win the world cup so they were all going to
be disappointed when they were coming back, but they may life.
So easy for us because they were all. So eager to combine
they came earlier than expected and they were ready
to to come here to join the team and be ready for today.
We still talking about this game. When do you do your first
thought for Brighton away? When's your first beginning of
that next cycle.
Then woman that I click, the last second of this mother,
I was tonight and tomorrow morning, we are ready to go and
it's and is Brighton, and this is gone. And in terms of
enjoyment levels McHale, we've seen you three years today, by
the way. Congratulations, three years ago today, your first
job first game, I should say, as Arsenal manager, in terms of
the enjoyment, over the last three years, I assumed at
times, of course, very, very difficult. But the enjoyment
that you must get now this season, especially must be,
and it's hard because you're,
you don't want to sit back and just enjoy it because there's
work to do, but you must take Some enjoyment from that. I do
take a lot of enjoyment but to be fair, I have taken a lot of
enjoyment in difficult moments to work with the people that we
work every single day that has made me really proud of that.
It doesn't depend on results. It depends on the Integrity of
the people they have next
to you. Wow love it. Brilliant because have to thank you so
much for joining us.
One more hug for 10. Maybe
thanks Miguel so much. Brilliant stuff there from
the Arsenal manager after what a brilliant victory for him
today.