\n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n is Odegaard<\/strong>: on his emotions after Wednesday:<\/strong> on the overturned penalty against Atletico:<\/strong> on using Wednesday as fuel for the run-in:<\/strong> on if there\u2019s a siege mentality in the squad:<\/strong> on what he sees in his players:<\/strong> \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n on his message to supporters: <\/strong> on if it\u2019s a test of nerve before the end of the season:<\/strong> on scoring goals in the first 15 minutes of the second half:<\/strong> on Fulham\u2019s season so far:<\/strong> \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n on carrying the ball forward:<\/strong> on Kai Havertz\u2019s season:<\/strong> on his future:<\/strong> on not being able to train much between games:<\/strong> \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n on Rice dropping deeper:<\/strong> on how impressed he is by Rice\u2019s form:<\/strong> on Rice being in contention for Player of the Season:<\/strong> on if Eze\u2019s freedom on the pitch is one of his best qualities:<\/strong> \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n on if he transmits that to his teammates:<\/strong> on the difference between this match and our game against Bournemouth:<\/strong> on learning from short turnarounds between games:<\/strong> on if the Premier League should help with the fixture congestion:<\/strong> on if the players feel any nerves from the crowd:<\/strong> on if he feels any nerves:<\/strong> \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mikel Arteta has been speaking with the press ahead of our clash against Fulham in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} FPL Focus: Wildcard dilemmas as Raya roars again <\/span>
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Let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n
Focus on Fulham, and hunger. Hunger to play, hunger to compete, hunger to win, hunger to be closer to achieving our dream.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know, I haven\u2019t spoken to them in the last few hours, so I don\u2019t know. We will deal with that on Monday, now it\u2019s Fulham.<\/p>\n
I think we have enough fuel in the tank; we\u2019re playing to win the Premier League, and it\u2019s exactly where we want to be. Four games to go, it\u2019s game two, I\u2019m ready to go.<\/p>\n
We certainly have that, and we need to face any context, any situation to achieve our goal. What happened the other night was extremely disappointing, and we need to make it happen at home now.<\/p>\n
Hunger, hunger to win, that\u2019s it. To compete, to prepare and to achieve the goal that we set at the start of the season.<\/p>\n Vote for your men’s Player of the Month for April <\/span>
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Let\u2019s keep doing what we’ve done all season and bring that energy, that passion and together we\u2019re going to make it happen.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a lot of factors, that\u2019s something that emotionally, for sure, we have to manage in the right way. But I would put the emphasis more on showing that desire, that determination, that hunger, that will that we\u2019ve shown all season and even more because we have only four games to play now and everything is at stake so it doesn\u2019t get better than that.<\/p>\n
The first thought is that we try to prepare and understand what happened in the first half and try to apply it immediately in the second half. There will be a lot of factors I\u2019m sure to get those stats and it\u2019s very positive, but what we want is throughout every 15-minute block of the game to have the ability to do that.<\/p>\n
Marco (Silva) is doing a remarkable job. I\u2019ve said it many times, in my opinion, he is one of the best managers in the league. The way he sets up his teams, what he\u2019s done for the club, it\u2019s incredible. We know how tough it\u2019s going to be tomorrow.<\/p>\n From the vault: Five famous wins against Fulham <\/span>
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Penetration is one of the words we use the most, and taking players\u2019 initiative and making things happen. Through the passes, obviously, it\u2019s extremely difficult against a team that is so organised, so we need to find other ways and that\u2019s the kind of thing we\u2019re looking forward to.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been a huge miss – we\u2019re talking about one of the most important attacking players we have, and he\u2019s been out for seven or eight months. Unfortunately, he\u2019s not been the only one with long-term injuries and players who have been missed. The team has shown an incredible capacity to overcome these kinds of scenarios and still be very, very competitive.<\/p>\n
The focus right now has to be on availability and performance, and Kai is desperate to be on the pitch as quickly as possible. Hopefully for Atletico, he will be available, and he\u2019s pushing every boundary to achieve that.<\/p>\n
First of all, (it\u2019s about) recovery and clarity on what we have to do, what we expect from the opponent and especially what we have to do to take the game where we want it, to then win it. When you don\u2019t have much time on the pitch, you have to do it in other ways, other methods, a lot of collective messages and especially a lot of individual meetings to achieve what we want on the pitch.<\/p>\n The story of how Arsenal and Fulham nearly merged <\/span>
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Every opponent has its things, and we believe that in the last game, that was the best way to hurt them: find spaces, find time and surprise them with certain movements. In relation to the opponent, we can change that, and having the variability and options to do so with our midfielders, I think, is something positive for the team.<\/p>\n
What we need are players who can occupy any position on the field. Modern football is going in that direction. When you\u2019re a midfielder, you\u2019re a midfielder – not a six, eight or 10. If we want a total team, we\u2019d better have total players to do that, to be comfortable and dominant in any area of the pitch, to dominate every phase of play. Declan is certainly evolving in that direction.<\/p>\n
What Declan is doing again is incredible. To play the amount of games, minutes with the quality that he’s shown in every game is something extremely difficult to do, and he’s doing it, not only this season, but the last few seasons that he’s been with us, and to show that level of consistency is extremely rare because the demands and the standards are very, very high.<\/p>\n
I think so. I think it’s part of his character and he has a unique way of expressing himself. Inside, none of us knows how he’s feeling, but what he actually transmits to the world outside is such security, calmness and composure in every situation on the field.<\/p>\n Help Eze win Premier League Goal of the Month! <\/span>
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He does, and especially the way he talks and connects with people, it’s very much like that. I think that’s something special. I think we need players like that, we need players that can have a different kind of presence on the pitch and body language, and Ebs brings something else that I think is unique and very powerful for the team.<\/p>\n
The time of the game is going to be different to start with, and hopefully the game and the result will be very different, especially when the game turned and how efficient they were with certain actions. We know the difficulty of the opponent, of the schedule. But I sense it in the team, we want it that much that tomorrow we’re going to be fresh again and ready to go.<\/p>\n
I want to think about all the turnarounds we’ve had that were so difficult that we won. But we can learn from the positive ones, from the other ones. We want to win every single game, which is very difficult to do. We have prepared the best possible way since the moment that the final whistle went at Atletico, we’ve done everything that we possibly can to give ourselves the best chance to recover, to bring the right energy, to prepare the game in the right way, and now it’s about the selection and performing on the pitch.<\/p>\n
Ideally, yes. We know that, if they can do that, that would be great.<\/p>\n
That’s a question for the players. I’m extremely grateful for the support, the atmosphere that we have created at Emirates. We always want more, we always want better, we always want every single action to be so positive behind the players. The more we do that, we all know that the outcome is going to be much better, and I’m sure, I know tomorrow is going to be such a special game when there’s so much to play. So we know everybody has to be at it.<\/p>\n
I think that’s part of my job as well, because I know what we are trying to do. I put the right example the other day when we played the short corners as well. We are so convinced of what we have to do and let the players make the decision, especially when they are on the ball. When we are defending and to push them and to do that, I think it’s great. When they have the ball, we need to allow them to make their decision, because probably, they’re going to take the right one most of the times because they\u2019re so good.<\/p>\n How to watch Arsenal v Fulham on TV <\/span>
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