Every word Mikel Arteta said on missed opportunities, Lacazette's return and the Southampton defeat

Difficult to explain because this is football, not basketball. Because any other sport you win the game very comfortably and you’re talking about different things. Difficult to explain but at the end of the day it’s decided in the boxes. They scored one goal, we didn’t. For the amount of time that we spent around the box it shows that we have a situation, we didn’t put them in the goal. Because they have an exceptional goalkeeper today and because we didn’t have enough quality and enough capacity to break them down when we had the numbers and the situations open to do so.

Huge. If you’re somebody who doesn’t know the result and was watching the game, you know what they would tell you - that Arsenal won the game. And we didn’t. It’s very disappointing and difficult to explain with words but this is sport, it’s what makes it different to any other. In basketball you have 25 shots, the opponent has one and you win ten out of ten times.

It’s what we have. The players that we have haven’t done it in this league. When you have world class players who have done it in the league for ten years, I would probably say that. I am the first one to defend them, to support them, you see how they try. The only way to do it is to insist and what happened today might happen the next day or the next month.

When something hits the post, the goalkeeper and deflected or goes outside, this very difficult to predict. To create more I can’t remember a game where Arsenal has played more than better, but the result is what we need to be where we want to be. And if we can’t do that then we’re not going to be there, it’s as simple as that. Because you don’t have enough quality, you have to score goals to win football matches, it’s as simple as that