Gabriel Martinelli responds to Arsenal fan anger with brutally-honest admission

Gabriel Martinelli has been 1 of a fig of Arsenal players to conflict this season, with the Gunners facing a monolithic situation to yet triumph the Premier League title

Gabriel Martinelli has expressed sympathy with Arsenal fans for their choler astatine the team's disappointing season, arsenic helium admitted to being a protagonist himself.

The Gunners are six points adrift of Premier League leaders Liverpool, having failed to triumph 10 of their 23 games. Thier inconsistent signifier has allowed the Reds to propulsion away, successful a run that Mikel Arteta's men were expected to equine a superior rubric challenge.

They person finished arsenic runners-up successful some of the past 2 seasons, but appeared to instrumentality a measurement backmost this term. Martinelli has been 1 of the players whose signifier has dipped this season, with the Brazilian scoring lone 7 goals and notching conscionable 3 assists.

And the winger has insisted the Gunners squad is afloat alert that they person not deed the targets expected this season. But helium called connected fans to rally down Arteta's broadside arsenic they bid for trophies implicit the second-half of the campaign.

"I'm a instrumentality myself. I cognize however they feel. Like us, they privation to beryllium champions," Martinelli told ESPN Brasil. "Of course, we players are the archetypal to propulsion ourselves to privation to triumph each game, to privation to beryllium Premier League champions. That's football.

"Sometimes things don't enactment retired the mode you'd like. We wanted to triumph the past 2 years, but it didn't happen. And this year, with City not doing truthful well, Liverpool came connected stronger. City are going to get going again, arsenic they ever do, and they're going to beryllium different squad that volition springiness america a hard time.

"We person to play our part, effort to triumph games, enactment calm. The Premier League is agelong and each crippled is difficult. When you deliberation it's going to beryllium easy, it ends up being complicated. The Premier League is similar that. Now we person to judge until the past crippled and moment. Trust successful our quality."

Arsenal person recovered successful caller weeks, arsenic showcased by Arteta earning a information for the Premier League Manager of the Month grant for January. The Gunners claimed 3 wins and 2 draws from their games this month, extending their unbeaten tally to 13 matches.

Their last top-flight outing of the period came successful the hard-fought triumph implicit Wolves past week. And pursuing that victory, Arteta called connected his troops to support grinding retired results.

"I'm highly arrogant of each the players. You tin speech astir our courage, you tin speech astir the spirit, but arsenic good astir intelligence. The mode they managed emotionally the game, it was unbelievable," helium said.

"We went to the 2nd half, the lone connection was to spell retired determination and assistance to triumph the game. That's it. Somebody doesn't consciousness it, don't go. And they surely did it successful a precise convincing mode to themselves to triumph the game.

"That's what they amusement america each azygous time and this play has been precise peculiar for galore circumstances, a batch of them precise challenging today. Still, we spell astir it. So that's what I emotion astir them. And I deliberation that's wherefore our supporters celebrated and they were down them due to the fact that they tin consciousness that."

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