Arsenal blew an eight-point lead last season and lost to Manchester City in the title game, according to Bukayo Saka. He said that Arsenal will not make the same mistakes this year.
On Sunday night, the Gunners beat Brighton easily on the south coast to get back to the top of the Premier League.
“Inside, we’re all excited,” Saka said. Saka scored Arsenal’s first goal from the penalty spot in the 33rd minute. Kai Havertz and Leandro Trossard scored goals in the second half.
“We know that the win puts us back on top.” “We’re making progress,” he said.
“Last season wasn’t great, but we learned a lot from it.” We need to stop playing games like this. We are more at ease this year. I think the team is better.
“Kai worked hard because you saw him from the goalkeeper to the striker.” We already know what to do. That’s how we should think: “We go to win.”
The only team behind Arsenal is Manchester City, who is one point behind Liverpool. However, Liverpool has a game in hand, which is on Sunday at Manchester United.
It’s the first time since 1997 that Mikel Arteta’s team has kept five straight league away clean sheets. Along with that, they have scored 75 goals and given up only 24.
Arteta said, “Really happy, a big performance.” “That tells you everything: they haven’t lost here since August.” Our performance was great.
“We played very well; when we have the ball, we’re really connected.” We played so well without the ball.
“We got ready because they did something like that against Liverpool.” We are older now. The bond you build with your team is important, and we went through a lot of things together.
“Plus, we signed some great players.” That helps because we’ve been through it.
Roberto De Zerbi, the manager of Brighton, was left to think about how hard it was to deal with a long number of injuries.
He also said, “We played well in the first half and until the second goal in the second half.”
“After that, we didn’t play as well, and we deserved to lose to one of the best top-flight teams.” We can’t play against Arsenal because our guys are hurt.
“This is a tough time for us because many of our players are hurt and can’t play.” It’s hard.