**Mikel Arteta says his players are already itching to bounce back after their 3-2 defeat at home to Manchester United.**
[Matheus Cunha scored a late winner](https://hayters.com/cunha-stunner-hands-arsenal-first-home-defeat-of-the-season/) after Mikel Merino had equalised to hand the Gunners a first home defeat of the season.
“We were absolutely brilliant in Milan and today, we weren’t that good,” Arteta said, reflecting on the defeat.
“I don’t know if it was mental because of how much they have played, because we were poor. Especially, technically, in certain aspects of the game against a team that when you make those mistakes, they can punish you big time and that was the difference.”
Arsenal had taken the lead in the game through a Lisandro Martinez own goal, before Bryan Mbeumo and Patrick Dorgu goals put the visitors in front.
On how his side bounce back, Arteta responded: “Doing what we have to do, doing what we’ve done for seven months. Exactly that.
“It’s the first time we lost a game at home this season. It’s part of the journey to winning. If not, nobody would lose football matches.
“It’s how we react to that and I’m very convinced because I know those players in the dressing room and how much we want it, that we’re going to react immediately.”
“We have to do more. Maybe that’s not enough and we have to do more. There’s nothing else.
“We have to do our very best. When you do that, you can rest in peace and today we certainly tried to do our very best but we weren’t efficient enough against a team that is very well organised and we got punished because of our own mistakes as well.”