Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta hailed “the mindset” of his gamers on an evening that Arsenal broke and equalled two separate data as they comfortably beat Slavia Prague within the Champions League.
A Mikel Merino brace and Bukayo Saka penalty have been sufficient to present the Gunners a complete 3-0 victory on the Fortuna Enviornment to keep up their excellent begin to this season’s Champions League and guarantee a Tenth-straight win in all competitions.
The outcome additionally gave Arsenal their eighth-successive clear sheet, a run that equals a membership report that has stood for 122 years.
“It reveals the consistency, the way in which we have now dominated the defensive a part of the sport,” Arteta mentioned whan requested in regards to the report.
“Essentially the most pleasing factor most likely is just not the report, it’s the mindset of the gamers.
“They’re speaking there about how we are able to nonetheless do higher. If we try this we are able to preserve bettering and that report could have an even bigger which means.”
On a constructive evening all spherical for the Premier League leaders, Arteta was capable of hand a Champions League debut to Max Dowman who, at 15 years and 308 days, grew to become the youngest participant to ever seem in Europe’s elite membership competitors.
And the Gunners boss was stuffed with reward for the teenager, hailing {the teenager}’s character.
Arteta mentioned: “What he’s achieved on the pitch, the primary ball he takes, he takes individuals on, he begins to dribble, will get a foul.
“That’s persona, that’s braveness and you can not educate that. You might have it otherwise you don’t. It doesn’t matter what his passport says.”
Subsequent up for Arsenal is a visit to Sunderland within the Premier League on Saturday.