The Gunners registered an incredible 30 shots over the course of the 90 minutes and had several touches in the opposition penalty box but little did it matter.
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Arsenal failed to make the most of their dominance after falling to West Ham United at home in the Premier League. The Gunners registered an incredible 30 shots over the course of the 90 minutes and had several touches in the opposition penalty box but little did it matter, as they failed to make it count. In the end, West Ham defended solidly and score two goals in the process to register a surprising 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium.
Manager Mikel Arteta rued the missed chances, as he saw his Arsenal side lose at home to West Ham United in the Premier League. “It’s what it is, we have to try to generate. If we don’t score goals in thirty shots, we have to do fifty or sixty to try to score, it’s the only thing. I cannot imagine a game that you have more dominance, more touches in the box, less situations of the opponents against a really good West Ham side, but today wasn’t enough to win the game,” Arteta, quoted on Arsenal.com, said in his post-match press conference.
He added: “Congratulate West Ham and praise my players, that’s what I can say. This is football. You look what we’ve done in the game, how much we generated in the game and to see the result is very disappointing, but they were better than us in both boxes. They had two shots, with the penalty, three, we had thirty. I don’t know how many touches in the box, how many situations, how many open goals to score and we haven’t. In football you have to do that better if you want to win, and today we haven’t won because of that and for the rest, the team kept trying and had an incredible attitude again.”
Not often does a team produce such a dominating performance and still end up getting nothing from the game. Speaking about his frustrations, Arteta said, “It is, but this is football, when the team generates that much normally you are going to win games and that’s the way we have done it, because as well against Brighton we generate so much, against Liverpool as well. But we score goals in different ways and we have to make another step in that area to win the game more comfortably for sure, because today the team deserves to win the game, there’s no question about that.”
The Arsenal manager was asked whether his players were lacking confidence in front of goal. He replied, “I don’t think it’s that. You hit the post, or you hit the ball and it’s half a centimetre and you have I don’t know how many shots or someone blocks the shot and it doesn’t come in. We miss a lot of situations when we have to pick the right pass, there are two players free in the box and I can recall five, six actions of that and that’s what makes the difference to win the games.”
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