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Arsenal vs. Watford. Four conclusions after the game. Arsenal made it five Premier League wins in a row on Saturday, scoring twice in the space of two minutes against Watford. A blistering finish from Mesut Ozil and an automatic goal from Craig Cathcart secured all three points for the Canaries, but there were plenty of other points to be made in the match. Arsenal too tight Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil, Alexandre Lacazette, Lucas Torreira and Granit Džaka were often packed too tightly together, especially in the first half, as Arsenal struggled to cope with a well-organised Watford back four. An average map of the players' positions for the first 45 minutes also shows that Aubameyang had to go deeper to keep himself out of the game. He had just 10 touches in the first half and was eventually replaced by Danny Welbeck. However, the introduction of Alex Iwobi in the 63rd minute helped spark Arsenal's attacking moves and the Nigerian himself had a hand in both goals, firstly

Arteta on the win, Saka, Nketiah: Press conference Mikel Arteta was a happy man after we secured our third win under him to reach the fifth round of the Emirates FA Cup. Afterwards, he faced the media to discuss the victory, our youngsters' performances, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and more. This is what he said: on making it to the fifth round... I am very pleased. I knew it was going to be tough here. We played a really young squad today and I wanted to see the reaction. I'm very pleased because I saw a lot of things that I really liked. on the injury to Mustafi... They're going to assess him between today and tomorrow but when a player has to come off, normally with a central defender - hopefully I am wrong but - normally it's not good news. on whether it makes a move for Pablo Mari more necessary... No. We had a very clear intention of what we wanted to do in the market with the resources we have and if we can do it, fine. But his fitness [Mustafi's fi

Hector Bellerin: «We must take the chains off and start talking» When Hector Bellerin saw Danny Rose recently open up about his battle with depression, he could only applaud the England international's honesty and bravery. Our right-back feels that footballers need to start speaking out more and push the issues that most affect them, and this is what he told Arsenal Media: on why more footballers don’t speak out… There’s all sorts of issues. I feel like the football industry is an industry where we have to be really quiet and play. I think the code around it is that footballers can’t really do anything else other than kick a ball. This is kind of the stereotype, so when there’s a footballer who’s stepping out of the box he’s always seen as someone that is not focused enough on football because he’s doing this, he’s doing that. As I always say, we have so much time and we’re humans so we have issues and worries. We should push these things. I think in America they’re more a

Emery on how we can improve our clean-sheet record Unai Emery is pleased with the progress his side have made since his arrival this summer, despite waiting for a first clean sheet. We have sharpened up defensively in recent weeks, only to concede late consolation goals against Newcastle and Vorskla, but our head coach remains optimistic that we are heading in the right direction. This is what he told the media ahead of Sunday’s game against Everton: on how much progress the team have made since he arrived… I think, little by little. We’ve won two matches away and that’s small progress but very important for continuing to improve our confidence. I think we are finding the balance. We need to continue working to get better in each match, individually and collectively. I am very excited to show every supporter our ideas, the exciting matches in each match, like at Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Away, [I want us] to be competitive, like in our last two matches against Newcastle and C