Mikel Arteta offered his thoughts on what **Arsenal**have learned from the last week of football.
The Gunners grabbed an emphatic 4-1 victory over **Tottenham**in the North London derby to mark their return from the international break before a 3-1 win over Bayern Munich to end their unbeaten streak in the Champions League.
A 1-1 draw away at **Chelsea**chipped away at their lead at the top of the Premier League table, but the team continue to take positives from the resilience of the squad.
“Well, starting from Spurs, I learned a lot as well about the international break again and what happened. For example, what happened with Gabi, and how can we correct that so that it never happens again, and we played a team game in a way that, again, we have to learn, and watching them, you always learn from it.
“Bayern Munich* brought different qualities, players that you don't see weekly. But we needed the potential of it and obviously what they were doing and we took a lot from them. Then last weekend, the same amount of games that you have to play within a game and what happened at **Stamford Bridge*in that sense, it's enormous because I think it's the perception of what happened and actually what happened and why it happened. So it was a huge learning.
*“Every team in the Premier League, the first thing they do is be aggressive. I don't think it's going to be something teams are going to change. You take it to certain extremes; hopefully, it will be looked after. It should have been in the first action of the game on kick-off with Cristhian Mosquera.*
“This season has been the worst in some areas, especially in the front line, and now what's happening with the back line. But we learn and we were able to put together a squad that is much more reliable and has more options.
“We learned from the past as well that we have to use players in different positions and they have to be able to fulfil different roles if we want to compete at this level and the example of Mikel Merino that I was expressing before is the best one, probably.”