Mikel Arteta addressed the matter of reacting from a 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa on the weekend.
Arsenal still went into the new week sitting at the top of the table in the Premier League and the Champions League, but they have dropped points for a third successive away fixture after draws at **Sunderland**and Chelsea. Against Club Brugge, the Gunners are going to try to put things right.
“We haven't lost that many. That is a moment as well to reflect and have some perspective about what we are doing. First of all, when you look at the reaction of the players when they are on the floor and in pain and what I felt in that moment, in the end, you don't know how much they put in and how much they want it.
*“It is difficult but as well it is a reflection of who we are and what we want to get and this has to help us to be a better team, to learn the lesson, to value what we are doing. First of all, all the difficulties that we have at the start of the season, where we are in the **Champions Leagu**e and Premier League, is where we want to be, and it is time that we have to learn every day that the margins are very small.*
“When you play a competition like the Champions League and how much we want to continue to do the job that we have started in the first five games. Tomorrow we are going to have our opening match against an opponent that has been very, very good.
“Club Brugge* have a new manager and a new manager always brings new energy, new ideas. So we have prepared for that as well and tomorrow we have to show again that we are right at the top and be better than the opponents in this game.*
“In the afternoon, we got the news that they have a new manager. So you have to adapt, it's not the first time that we are facing this situation. So, ok, we have to think about what the possibilities are and look at his past and we have to focus much more on what we have to do.
“We have to be able to adapt in relation to what they do as we said in terms of their formation and the players that they’re going to pick. Then we have to focus on ourselves, what we have to do to be better than them.”