Spiky Mikel Arteta makes Chelsea vs Arsenal prediction straight after losing to Inter

Arsenal suffered their 2nd decision successful a enactment by losing 1-0 distant to Inter Milan successful the Champions League, leaving Mikel Arteta furious with referee Istvan Kovacs

Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta believes that his broadside volition bushed Chelsea if they nutrient the aforesaid show arsenic successful their bruising 1-0 defeat distant to Inter Milan.

The Gunners mislaid their 3rd crippled successful six astatine the San Siro connected Wednesday, arsenic Hakan Calhanoglu's arguable punishment connected the changeable of half-time made the difference. Arteta's broadside registered astir treble the magnitude of expected goals arsenic Inter - including their punishment pursuing Mikel Merino's handball - and fired disconnected 20 shots to the hosts' 7 successful the Champions League clash.

But Arsenal person present mislaid 2 games successful a row, having besides fallen 1-0 to Newcastle United connected Saturday successful a stroke to their Premier League rubric ambitions. On Sunday, the Gunners question to Stamford Bridge for what's go a immense game.

Assessing the Inter defeat, Arteta praised his players' show and sent a informing to Chelsea. "We should person scored a mates astatine slightest but the mode the squad played, that was america astatine least. Every determination successful the container makes a difference," the Arsenal manager told TNT Sports.

"The mode we played tonight, this squad tin spell to Chelsea and win."

Arteta gave comparatively abbreviated answers successful his post-match interview, intelligibly irked by the punishment determination which went Inter's mode and the entreaty which Arsenal had seen turned down earlier successful the archetypal half. Inter goalkeeper Yann Sommer was precocious to an aerial situation and alternatively of punching the shot away, some of his fists deed Merino's head.

"I americium precise arrogant of my players, the level of domination we had," Arteta, who was shown a yellowish paper during the match, declared. "We were precise harshly done by successful the consciousness that is obvious. Both penalties.

"If you are going to springiness a penalty, the different 1 has to beryllium due to the fact that helium punches him successful the head. There is nary deflection, thing you tin bash successful the box, truthful tin helium get distant from it. If helium is going to springiness that the different has to beryllium 1,000 per cent a penalty."

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He went connected to corroborate that Merino, who came disconnected astatine half-time successful spot of Gabriel Jesus, wasn't concussed aft his clash with Sommer. "No, helium was not concussed, yesterday helium was not feeling large and I decided to instrumentality him disconnected arsenic I needed him 100 per cent, Arteta added.

Asked astir striker Kai Havertz, who came disconnected precocious connected with humor pouring from his head, Arteta replied: "Kai had a large chopped and hopefully helium volition beryllium good for the weekend."

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