Every word Mikel Arteta said on Partey's injury, Tierney's absence, Tavares sub and Spurs

Yes especially in the first half. Congratulations first of all to Crystal Palace for winning the match and the way they performed, but we weren’t at the races today especially in the first half. We were late to every ball, we were soft in the duels and we didn’t earn the right to play. When we did a little bit we were sloppy on the ball and we didn’t have any dominance, any sequences of play where we could take some control of the game and we conceded two poor goals. Overall it’s unacceptable, we put our hands up, apologise, regroup. Tomorrow is a new day and a new opportunity to prepare the group against Brighton.

No. I could not see it. We discussed it just before kick off, the way you win here is when you compete the way you should. That means you win duels, have presence and the composure on the pitch to manage certain situations. They are a really physical team and the pitch is not the best to do that so you have to find a way to do other things that usually you don’t have to do. We didn’t manage to do that.

Arsenal player ratings vs Crystal Palace as Tavares has stinker and Odegaard poor

No because the pressure has been there the last seven or eight weeks. We are talking all the time about the race for the top four and these have been putting in really good performances and getting really good results. Today we didn’t perform it’s as simple as that. We were second best in every department especially in the first half. When we tried to change in the second half and play much more the way we wanted to play, in defining moments we had three or four big chances and we didn’t score the goals that we needed to come back in the game.

It’s what we have. We lost Kieran, we lost Thomas now and that’s it. With the players