EPL: Arteta reacts as Arsenal go 7pts clear of Man City

Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, is refusing to get carried distant aft his broadside opened a seven-point spread astatine the acme of the Premier League.

The Gunners pulled disconnected a constrictive 1-0 triumph implicit Brighton, portion Manchester City were held to a 2-2 gully by Nottingham Forest astatine the Etihad.

Bukayo Saka, who was the skipper for Arsenal astatine the Amex, scored what proved to beryllium the victor aboriginal successful the archetypal half.

“This was a truly hard 1 aft everything we’ve been done successful the past fewer weeks,” Arteta told TNT Sports.

“Every crippled successful the Premier League offers you antithetic things. Big recognition to the boys due to the fact that the effort they enactment successful is astronomical.

On the seven-point spread betwixt Arsenal and City, Arteta said: “We did what we had to bash and that is what we volition proceed to do.”

EPL: Arteta reacts arsenic Arsenal spell 7pts wide of Man City