Mikel Arteta asserted his gratitude for the depth of the **Arsenal**squad.
The Gunners grabbed a late leveller in a 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen through the work of two substitutes. Noni Madueke moved infield from the right flank to attract a foul in the penalty area before **Kai Havertz**dispatched it. For the seventh time, a substitute has scored for the team in the Champions League this campaign, and the manager maintains belief that they will be key to success.
“We improved with the finishers. A different threat started to create in and around the box, and Noni created the moment to score. It was a big moment in the game, the tie, and for [Kai] to stay calm and composed to make that decision: big credit to him. That's the big quality of this team, the amount of goals and assists across the team. It's unbelievable, the biggest strength of us. We have to maintain it.
“It was a game with different moments in the game. In the first half, we had parts where we were very dominant, but we lacked in the final third, especially a lot of simple things to finish actions much better and those giveaways allowed them to run in transition.
“They’re a team that is very dangerous on that. We had the massive chance with Martinelli where we hit the bar, and if that had gone in, then obviously it's a different game.
“Then we had to change a few things and hoped we would start really strongly in the second half, and we were completely the opposite. We get caught from a routine from kick-off, and we know because we showed three times the kind of things that they do.
“They could have scored immediately from the cross, and then they scored in the next action with the set-piece, so that's very, very disappointing from our side. After that, we have to emotionally manage the game well, because we could start to make rash decisions and start to throw the tie away.”