Mikel Arteta
ArsenalOliver Glasner
Crystal Palace
Meeting Highlights…INJURIES
We still have a few unfortunately on that list that we haven’t managed to get back yet, but hopefully they are much closer and some of them are in a better place than we expected. Individually I'm not going to tell you exactly how everybody is, but we are still missing a few.
…ROY HODGSON
Massive respect and big admiration for the way he’s conducted himself and especially the trajectory that he’s had. His teams are extremely well-organized and hard to beat. He’s really good at provoking things that he wants in the game and tomorrow is going to be a big battle for us, that’s for sure.
…RUN OF DEFEATS
A lot of times, it’s not what you have to do, it’s just looking around and [seeing] how people behave. When I say that I love my job so much, it’s because I love the people that I have next to me, that they are with me every day. OK, we had a difficult time, and it’s true that we played in a certain way against big teams and we didn’t win, but we know what we produced. They are a joy to work with and they give me every reason to be super positive for the second half of the season.
Mikel Arteta
Manager on Arsenal…INJURIES
We still have a few unfortunately on that list that we haven’t managed to get back yet, but hopefully they are much closer and some of them are in a better place than we expected. Individually I'm not going to tell you exactly how everybody is, but we are still missing a few.
…ROY HODGSON
Massive respect and big admiration for the way he’s conducted himself and especially the trajectory that he’s had. His teams are extremely well-organized and hard to beat. He’s really good at provoking things that he wants in the game and tomorrow is going to be a big battle for us, that’s for sure.
…RUN OF DEFEATS
A lot of times, it’s not what you have to do, it’s just looking around and [seeing] how people behave. When I say that I love my job so much, it’s because I love the people that I have next to me, that they are with me every day. OK, we had a difficult time, and it’s true that we played in a certain way against big teams and we didn’t win, but we know what we produced. They are a joy to work with and they give me every reason to be super positive for the second half of the season.
Oliver Glasner
Manager on Crystal Palace…TRANSFERS
I think for a long time, all through this window, certainly, but even in the summer when I came back, we were discussing certain areas of the field where we thought it would be good if we could get some strengthening to our squad. There might be one or two nice little surprises for me in terms of having a stronger squad to go through the rest of the season.
…ARSENAL CHALLENGE
Well, they provide a massive challenge. I mean, you're not a title contender unless you're an extremely good team with extremely good players.We will have to wave goodbye to the Cup run and really concentrate now on getting some points in the league – and that starts tomorrow. I do think we take a little bit of positivity from the Wednesday evening game into that game tomorrow with us.
…INJURIES IMPACT
Of course, when I came back it was fresh after a very good finish to last season where we really had played well, but of course I was working on the basis that that team would be there in its entirety…. so we were definitely targeting a middle of the table, even maybe slightly bigger, but unfortunately the way things have gone it's become a bit harder for us.