Mikel Arteta spoke to the Sky Sports cameras after Arsenal’s 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest, which solidified Manchester City’s title.
He said the following, therefore…
First off, my sincere congratulations to Manchester City on their title victory. However, today is a terrible day for us. Now that we have to face the facts, we have to admit that we threw away a goal today because we couldn’t dissect it. Three hours of playing would not have resulted in our finishing the task.
“I accept the obligation since it is mine. Sport consists of both the beautiful and the ugly.
“The number of goals we’ve allowed in recent games has cost us, but we can’t place the blame elsewhere. In the past several weeks, we haven’t performed as well as a team as we could have.
It’s football, folks. It is a very sad day because we have been working towards that goal for 11 months and have won so many days. We tried to compete, but we couldn’t.
“We must now recover. It hurts a great deal. We have a challenging week ahead of us, so I need to find a way to motivate the guys.