Mikel Arteta was reaching for the superlatives to describe his team’s performance against Wolves on Saturday.
Controversially reduced to 10 men in the first-half, we stuck to our task to earn a 1-0 win, making for a very happy Arteta at full-time.
“It was incredible what the boys did,” the manager said. “We were thrown into a very difficult context. We had a difficult one already losing some players very close to the game but the team showed what [they are].
“An unbelievable spirit, so much courage and very, very intelligent – to be mature, to be composed, to be emotionally in control and understand and be focused on what we have to do, knowing what happened. I think we fully deserved to win the game.”
The red card for Myles Lewis-Skelly came shortly before the interval, and the boss used the half-time break to regroup and refocus the players.
“I wanted to win the game. Regardless of what happened, that is what I wanted. To be on the front foot, to play with a lot of courage with the ball, to use certain spaces that were going to be available and to keep believing until the last minute that we can do it. Unbelievable what they did.”
His final word was for the travelling supporters though, who got behind the team throughout the match. He dedicated the victory to them.
“They were unbelievable,” he said. “I think we made them really proud as well because we show our team again, [even with] difficulty and something very, very hard to admit, still goes on the front foot and has the will to win and finds a way to win it. So that’s for them.”
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