Mikel Arteta’s Shocking Admission After Arsenal’s Shocking FA Cup Exit to Southampton Revealed

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has reacted to his side’s 2-1 defeat away to Southampton in the FA Cup.

Looking to bounce back from a Carabao Cup defeat before the international break, the Gunners crashed out of another domestic cup competition at St. Mary’s to a Shea Charles winner, and now need to regroup ahead of a Champions League quarter-final this week.

Speaking in his press conference after the game, Arteta spoke of Arsenal’s failure to break the Saints down and how his side will look to recover from another bitter blow.

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Everything Mikel Arteta said after Arsenal’s 2-1 loss to Southampton

On the disappointment of losing…

Yeah, very disappointed in the manner that we lost the opportunity to get back to Wembley. I think the game had many, many, many periods of dominance from our side when we generated chances and situations. We didn’t capitalize on that enough, and then, yeah, when you defend in and around the box and directly in the manner that we did it today, you’re going to put yourself in a really difficult position. And they did decapitalize on that, and that’s the reason why we’re out.

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