Mikel Arteta defended his team after the fallout from a 2-2 draw between **Arsenal**and Wolves.
A win for Man City can close the lead at the top of the table to just two points before the North London derby, but the manager of the Gunners gave a rallying cry on behalf of his players.
“What I’ve seen is a tremendous reaction again and I’m not surprised at all. I mean, when you lose points in the last kick of the game again, in a very unpredictable manner, I would say, because to predict somebody with a 0.2 expected goals probability and one shot, to concede an equaliser in the manner that we did it, nobody can really understand that. This is football and that’s the beauty of it.
*“That was a chapter. So we have a long season. Chapter 27 says, okay, we draw against **Wolves*in this manner. What I’m very interested in is the next one, it’s what we are made of.
“Ok, what do we do about this and how we write our own destiny from here and going forward, and that’s it. You have to react to that because life moves on, the result has to stay, unfortunate as it was. There is nothing that we can do, what we can do is a lot, it’s what’s going to happen next.
“The immediate reaction is tough, you know, you put so much, you look at the first half and actually what happened in the game. I was very, post-match, as well, [talking] about the standards that we showed, it was much better than expected but it’s still not enough to the standards that we required.
“Very difficult to understand, so it is a shock in the system, but they’ve been incredibly good with that and yeah, we wanted to give them the victory, we couldn’t and we have to move on.
*“It's becoming more and more exciting because that means that you are closer. The more repeatedly you are in these kind of positions, you're going to win it. The same in the Champions League. You don't get to the quarter-finals for, how long was it? 20 years? Or semi-final. It's impossible.*
“You have no chance. You can dream whatever but you have no chance. So, first of all, you have to be there, and then in April or May, it will be decided who is the best, who can get over the line.”