Get close guys, come on.
Friday night, guys. The stadium is full.
Your families, your supporters are here,
you have to lift them to get fire out of them.
I want everybody hunting, going back, winning the duel, putting the ball back,
and playing forward and managing, regain.
We have to be compact,
we have to believe and we have to have energy.
Compact and fucking aggressive from the beginning.
The first 10 minutes, I want to lift the crowd.
So you two in the box, shot, crosses, set pieces and we play high.
We have to attack them in behind, guys.
-Let's go... -[cheers]
[man] Energy, guys!
[hip-hop music]
[hubbub]
[cheering]
[crowd cheering]
[hip-hop music]
When you love what you do, that is called passion.
We have to believe, we have to have energy.
[shouts]
Show these people how much you care.
[cheers]
Let's go for it.
[crowd chanting]
[suspenseful music]
[crowd cheering]
[narrator] Nine weeks into the league and it's been three wins,
three defeats and two draws.
No one quite knows what to expect from Mikel Arteta's team.
[cheers]
[commentator] A little bit feisty in the first minute.
[commentator] Ball to the back post, the overhead kick, it's a miskick
and Saka comes in with the left foot.
Smith-Rowe's corner.
Another good one, it's Partey, this time it's in!
Thomas Partey
with the touch, and it's his first goal for Arsenal!
[cheers]
[upbeat music]
[commentator] Ben White now bursting forward, he's still going!
Excellent again from Arsenal.
Smith-Rowe, Tavares on the overlap.
[cheers]
It's been an electric start by Arsenal.
[narrator] 21-year-old left-back Nuno Tavares
was the club's first summer signing.
Tonight, he's making his debut in the Premier League.
[commentator] I hope they've got plenty of sugar in his tea,
Tavares, he's run about 40 mile in that first half,
all down that left-hand side, and here he goes again.
[commentator] He can pick his spot here, the cross comes in,
Lacazette's underneath it, falls here to Bukayo Saka,
on his left foot, tries to square it towards Aubameyang...
There's a challenge in the penalty area.
-Lacazette has gone down. -It's a penalty.
[cheers]
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to double Arsenal's lead.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, it's saved by Martínez...
Aubameyang puts in the rebound
and Arsenal have doubled their lead, 2-0.
Tavares, Aubameyang. Good football again.
Smith-Rowe might have to go on his own this time.
Emile Smith-Rowe, he's still going,
deflects off the post, and in.
Arsenal have made it 3-0 and Aston Villa are in disarray.
[crowd cheering]
Bailey, though, trying to get away,
holds off a couple of challenges and they've scored.
Ramsey has scored and there was no stopping that,
and Ramsdale won't get that clean sheet.
[commentator] It's not gonna win them the game but what it does do,
it takes away that clean sheet.
[whistle]
There goes the final whistle! A big 3 points for Arsenal.
They're 7 unbeaten in all competitions
and at times tonight they were exhilarating.
Well done!
Fucking shit, man! Tackle the fucking player.
[Aaron] Fuck you.
[hubbub]
That cost me the bastard clean sheet.
[Gaspar] Be happy.
Not easy to win the games, huh?
[Arteta] All right, guys.
So, I just want to say I love my boys again.
I just want to say to you, guys,
I'm proud of you, guys, the way you played,
the aggression, the purpose, what you transmitted on the pitch,
the quality that you showed today.
There are things that still that we have to do better,
but you have to continue like that, with that belief,
with that energy, and it's a joy.
Out there watching you play like that is a fucking joy.
Nuno, to have the Premier League first start
and play the way you played, my friend, chapeau!
Your energy, you can have a drink.
Well done guys, let's continue, let's continue.
[cheers]
[upbeat music]
[man] Yeah!
[laughter]
[music continues]
[engine roaring]
What is this shit car?
Bro, they are the best car ever.
[narrator] After the win at home, the squad must now prepare
for a tough set of away matches
against some of the biggest teams in the league.
[speaking French]
[narrator] The morning after each match,
Mikel and his team have a debrief.
They go over their tactics and the wellbeing of the players.
Let's get an update, guys.
[Gary O'Driscoll] Okay. So, update from the game,
as you all saw, it was a pretty intense game.
We did have a couple of cramps but the lads were really improving on that.
And Laca, of course, that was his first significant effort
in a Premier League game without many matches under his belt.
Aaron, he's fine, no complaints.
He's doing great.
He was furious. He was furious after the game.
[Stuivenberg] Well, he was right, you know.
Yeah, but I love it, love it.
Nuno as well, yeah?
He's off the charts, his stats.
The way we started the game,
straight away in the first action against Watkins,
the reaction of the whole team, that changed the tone,
and how involved we are in the game to do that.
16 shots, 0 against,
they didn't run once and it was a complete domination of the game,
that is not a coincidence, and we have to continue to do that,
something that in the second half we struggled a little bit more.
[Stuivenberg] That's it. Okay? Thank you.
[intriguing music]
Five minutes, yeah?
[shouting]
[Steve Round] Yes!
[narrator] New signing Aaron Ramsdale has made a big impact.
In the 6 games he has started, Arsenal are unbeaten
when Ramsdale has been in goal.
[Arteta] Since the moment that I had him
on the phone, it was first of all him, then I spoke to his father,
I was so impressed and I said: this is the one.
And he was very confident, he was...
full of enthusiasm, he was really open about...
how he has developed the last few years,
how he wants to make his mark
at the club.
It was natural, it was clear and he was so determined,
like what you see on the pitch.
Wait! Crush that!
[narrator] Aaron's previous two clubs
were both relegated from the Premier League,
joining Arsenal is a big step up.
[Aaron] When you play
for a big club, you definitely feel it and I'm loving it.
I'm not walking around saying I am the best in the world,
but I'll always have aspirations to get there.
[shouts]
[in Spanish] Vamos!
Where I've come from,
in terms of the past two seasons,
I knew how hard clean sheets are to come by in this league.
It's not just me trying to keep the ball out
of the back of the net or my back four, it's everyone.
And I think for me it's the main thing of showing everyone that for 95 minutes,
we're concentrated and we're all working for the common goal.
The Aston Villa game, in the last five minutes where
they scored, em...
on other days that could either be a 1-1 equaliser or a 2-1
and then the last 5-10 minutes are a nervey ending.
[whistle]
[narrator] Since the beginning of the season,
Arsenal's defence has been overhauled with an influx of young talent.
Four of the current back five are new to the club.
Mikel and his staff need to understand these new players
and mould them into a defensive unit.
There was a very famous Spanish coach who used to say that
players are numbers.
I cannot treat players like numbers.
For me, they are people
and I don't know when I am 30 years in this job
if I change my mind, I don't know, today I cannot do it, I...
I need to understand them
emotionally as well, what happens in their lives,
how they're experiencing new challenges,
new country, this new club.
There is a two-way trafic, you know.
And that person has to be willing as well to give.
[O'Driscoll] Um, no issues with Mo, nothing with Nuno,
Tommy, there's a little bit of soreness in that ankle.
[Arteta] With Nuno,
it's been pretty difficult to get information out of him.
We need to somehow create a comfortable environment,
a room where he is comfortable to chat and express how he's feeling,
because at the moment, it's not the case.
He trains really hard and he's not complaining at all,
but I think we have to monitor the player in a different way.
You're right, he is very, very quiet.
I'll put one of the guys to work specifically with him.
-Okay, that's it for me. -[Arteta] Thank you.
[narrator] With his 1st choice left-back, Kieran Tierney, currently injured,
Mikel has started new signing Nuno Tavares, earlier than expected.
[Alexandre Lacazette] What did you do yesterday?
IKEA. With my mum.
Mums love IKEA.
You have everything there.
[in French] Aïe, aïe, aïe, aïe!
I used to go once a month when I was little
and every stand she stopped...
Hmm?
[narrator] Nuno left home in Portugal to sign for Arsenal 4 months ago.
[producer] What was it like, leaving your family in Portugal?
-Was it hard? -Yeah, a little bit.
But I keep strong here for them.
People are different than in Portugal,
so I try to give everything to the club.
I felt so proud of me to... to start on Premier League debut.
I'm waiting for this moment again.
[upbeat music]
Programs!
[commentator] Good afternoon, this is game day
and we're just under half an hour away from kick-off here
at the King Power Stadium.
It is Leicester City versus Arsenal.
[narrator] Playing Leicester City away will be no easy feat
for Mikel's fledging defence.
Leicester have one of the Premier League's most prolific goal scorers.
[hubbub]
[Arteta] Get together.
Get in a circle together.
-Ben is coming. -[Arteta] Who?
Ben, Ben.
Yeah?
Stay close to him.
We are going to do something, guys.
We're going to get all the energy that is in this room together.
We are going to do it one way.
When I tell you, I want you to start to do this,
and I want you to close your eyes.
I am going to tell you what is going to happen in this game.
And after that, you're going to grab each other's hands
and we're going to create a bubble
with the energy that we're going to play fucking there.
You understand? Everybody understands?
Start to do this.
Close your eyes and I want to see you, as a team,
how aggressive you are going to be
in every fucking high press situation you are in,
with your unit and when that happens, you're going to regain the ball,
and you're going to play forward, and you're going to finish the action,
and if not, when the ball is over,
you're going to track back and you win and go to the ball
because we don't have to let them run.
With the ball, clarity, ability and trust on each other.
Every action, every ball, guys, we play as a team.
Have the courage, guys, and enjoy fucking playing with each other.
Grab each other's hands now and feel it in your body,
who we are, next to each other.
Who. We. Are.
Enjoy playing together.
Let's go out and fucking win this game, guys.
[cheers]
Let's go!
[cheers]
[suspenseful music]
[whistle]
[crowd cheers]
[commentator] Bukayo Saka. Still going now, it's Saka.
Oh, it's very nearly a perfect start for the Gunners.
Saka into the danger area and it's turned in by Gabriel.
And Arsenal lead inside 5 minutes!
[crowd cheers]
And here comes Aubameyang,
stealing possession from Daniel Amartey.
Still Aubameyang, straight at Schmeichel in the end.
Lacazette joining the attack down the middle.
Here is the Frenchman,
goes to pass one into the box
and it comes for Smith-Rowe!
And Arsenal double their advantage.
[crowd cheers]
[narrator] Arsenal have a two-goal lead and a victory in the bag,
if they can keep a clean sheet.
[commentator] Into Iheanacho. He's gonna try his luck.
[whistle]
There's no foul there!
[commentator] A free kick has been given here to Leicester City
in a very promising situation.
[suspenseful music]
Brilliant save! Turned in, is it? No, it's on the line.
[commentator] An astonishing save by Aaron Ramsdale.
[whistle]
[crowd cheers]
[commentator] Well, that's full time here at the King Power
and it's another win for Mikel Arteta's men.
[narrator] Aaron doesn't concede a goal, and the team are now 9 games unbeaten.
[crowd chanting]
[cheers]
[Pierre-Emerick] So, I wanted to say something if...
if Mikel says yes?
I, okay, so everyone close your eyes.
[laughter]
Go like this with your hands and now sing:
♪ Two days off, two days off, two days off ♪
[shouts]
[upbeat music]
[crowd chanting]
[narrator] Arsenal follow this result with a 1-0 win against Watford.
The unbeaten run is now 10.
I think this season, there's been ups, there's been downs,
but I have, I have a positive outlook.
When I look at the other teams around us, I feel like we just want it more.
I feel like we have such a reason to want to get it
and the characters in the squad just look like they love Arsenal,
they want to get us back to where we deserve to be.
I think with Arteta, you can see that the players respect him.
I bet those players want to do so well for Mikel Arteta.
Maybe he'd rule with a little bit of respect but also a little bit of fear.
[hip-hop music]
You know about Thorpe Park, innit?
Thorpe Park?
[Alexandre] So, it's a park?
What they doing?
Rollercoasters, mazes, rides, then there's like, games to win,
like big teddy bears.
-It's nice with your girl, bro. -[Sambi] Ah yeah, yeah.
[narrator] The success on the pitch
is changing the atmosphere at the training ground.
The phone number of your father, do you know it?
-Yes. -How do you think about those numbers?
Do you know it in isolation or you do it like blocks of three numbers?
[Kieran] The first four, the second four and then the last.
So, you go in fours? Most people go in threes.
They memorise in threes.
Do you know what a maze is?
[Sambi Lokonga] No.
You don't know what a maze is? Do you know what a maze is?
-[Alexandre] A maze? -Yeah.
What is this?
I can't describe... Karl, you know what a maze is, right? No?
If you tell me my number in a different way,
I don't recognise my number
because it's also by sound, the way you memorise it.
The game is the same.
You work with the units, it's much simpler to understand where the ball is.
It's interesting.
I see Mikel better.
Yeah.
Bit more relaxed, yeah.
[Edu] Yeah, much more calm.
[Steve Round] He's so smart, he's learning every day.
Yeah.
I see him more with the players.
You know?
I always said,
when he started to develop a little bit more
personal relationships with the players,
he can go on for another level because...
Understand football tactical wise,
he's top.
You've got to capture the hearts as well as the minds.
You can see the team are really together and they're all fighting for each other,
they're all talking, socialising, having lunch together.
It all stems from the manager.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
[laughter]
[Kieran] ♪ We all follow the Arsenal... ♪
Hello! Hello!
[narrator] Kieran Tierney arrived from Scottish side Celtic back in 2019.
[Kieran] The thing I enjoy most
is making our family proud.
Aye, that's the best, genuinely the best thing, like
money cannae buy stuff like that.
My mum would watch TV and saw these superstars...
They're celebrities more than footballers at times.
And when I came down here, she was scared if I would go like that,
like if I would just change.
[narrator] He's been out with an ankle injury for 3 weeks.
The medical staff are currently overseeing his transition
back to the first team.
5% isn't it, your body fat?
[Kieran] I'm 7.5 now.
[O'Driscoll] KT.
-Doc-aldhino. -[O'Driscoll] Hey.
Doc, I've hacked the system.
Which one?
The body fat system.
-[man] He's done it, he's nailed it. -7.5.
I'm disappointed. What's happened to Cadbury's?
Cadbury's shares will take a dive.
Yeah, I know. That's the time to invest in it though, innit?
[O'Driscoll] Have you made an effort for that?
[Kieran] Slight adjustments.
[laughter]
Have you stopped eating chocolate?
No, have I fuck!
[laughing]
-[man] No, he can't do that. -Impossible.
-[Arteta] All good? -[Kieran] All good.
[Kieran] When you're playing every week,
you just see life as when's the next game?
There's just pressure, pressure, pressure.
When I'm injured there's no pressure, it feels weird.
You just feel like you don't know where you are,
you're just in the middle of nowhere really.
-[Edu] You okay? -I'm still not 100.
Now I can train and get back so...
-Nearly there, nearly there. -Nice.
[narrator] The medical staff are meeting to discuss Kieran's progress.
Anyone complaining on the beds?
[Jordan Reece] KT has pulled me there.
He's obviously mentioned that he wants to train Thursday,
so it might be worth just having a chat with him.
The plan is for recovery at the moment, though.
Yeah. But then he also mentioned the mental side.
I said, as games go
on and you build intensity around training sessions in the game,
you get into that rhythm, this will be a thing of the past.
[Tom Allen] We're on a trajectory that's going the right way.
Good stuff.
[hip-hop music]
[Johnny McCallum] How you doing, big guy?
What do you want? Do you want a wee bit of everything?
That's your usual.
-I'll have my usual, please. -Yeah, yeah.
The venison, please.
[narrator] Johnny McCallum was Kieran's personal chef
before he started working at Arsenal.
Do you know how much two of them cost?
£148. Mate, honestly.
-It's one of the best meats you'll get. -I'd have some of that tonight.
Kieran, I'm gonna take some home and give to the dog as well.
Aye, exactly.
[music continues]
[narrator] Kieran lives with Johnny near the training ground.
Can get quite angry sometimes if we get beat, yeah, it's not...
But that's just passion from him, that's what he cares about,
so I stay out of his way.
Aye. Johnny knows. If I am angry, he leaves the food and just bolts.
Yeah, that's it.
[Kieran] Where I grew up was Muirhouse in Motherwell.
I mean, it was just
the working-class upbringing and if you wanted something,
you were told you needed to work for it and I think that's where I get
a lot of my work rate from.
And my mentality is from my mum and dad
'cause they work for everything that they had.
My mum had three jobs,
as a dinner lady, as a cleaner in the school...
She was up at 6 in the morning every day, 5-6 in the morning,
just to provide for us, to provide for me and my sister.
[producer] What was it like, moving down to a city like London?
It was hard to start with, I was really struggling,
really low point and homesick, was terrible to start with.
Outside training, we had a lot of time to think.
I'm not saying I was ever in a bad place where it was suicidal or that,
but my friends have been.
Two or three of them have committed suicide, lost their life and,
like, you're with these people and you don't know a thing because
they've not spoke.
So I think I feel a certain responsibility to try and help
as much as I can because I kind of know how it feels
to be in a certain place.
Looking back now it was hard.
My mum and dad say all the time: "It's brilliant that you've got Johnny,
it relaxes us that you've got Johnny there,
not just because he cooks but he looks after you."
I'm getting emotional.
I don't speak often, man, so when I speak it's from the heart, innit.
[upbeat music]
[Bukayo] I'm gonna get a dog. You know a cockapoo?
[Nuno] Oh. Like a puppy?
-"Poopy"? -Poodle.
-Man said "poopy". -[laughter]
[Bukayo] Wait, is he trying to say puppy?
[narrator] Arsenal's next match is against title contenders Liverpool.
The last time an Arsenal team won at Anfield in the league was back in 2012,
when Mikel was in the starting line-up.
It's a fixture that puts Arsenal's unbeaten run at risk.
Good afternoon, guys, nice to see you all.
Now we have to focus here, we have a run of games coming, guys,
that are going to dictate big time what's gonna happen in our season,
and we have to start in Anfield.
The most important thing is not what we do here or here, guys,
the most important thing with Anfield,
is that emotionally you are in top condition to compete there.
And to do that, you have to know, what is Anfield.
And it's, believe me, very different
to any ground that you have experienced in the Premier League.
First of all, you have to go there top: "I go to Anfield
and I am going to beat them and I'm going to win."
And I really believe that we're going to Anfield and we're going to beat them.
[tense music]
And you put the extension leads, after, I want them here.
[narrator] Mikel wants to prepare the players
for the intense atmosphere at Anfield,
something that many of the team have yet to experience.
[Arteta] One of my crazy ideas.
Today, they are going to train with, in the background,
"You'll Never Walk Alone".
[Tim O'Brien] That's a good idea. Interesting idea.
I'm looking forward to this.
There's a word that we use in Spain on cycling when a cyclist is going up
and looks amazing and in one kilometre he goes... Boom!
And looks like he's stuck and he can't...
It's a word, it's called "pájara".
And I had it once at Anfield.
The game was going there
and suddenly I could only see red shirts flying around,
the game is passing all over me and I cannot react.
And people would think "what is he doing?",
and I am like... I cannot do it.
I cannot do it emotionally, physically, I cannot cope, everything goes too fast.
And I only had that feeling in my career once and it was at Anfield.
Boys! Mentally, we start to play the game now.
Okay? We are at Anfield, let's go.
[recording of a crowd singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" playing]
[coach] Move! Yes, like that.
Again, again, again!
[Arteta] When that crowd is in that mood,
they play every ball of that game with the team. And you can feel it.
[narrator] With Kieran Tierney fully fit again,
Mikel must decide which of his left-backs is better prepared to start at Anfield.
[in Spanish] Nuno! You have to give yourself the space you need.
As soon as you see Salah going, just take a look if it's Chamberlain,
or if it's, what's his name, Alexander-Arnold.
[recording continues]
[whistle]
Bravo boys, well done!
[tense music]
[commentator] In September, Arsenal were 15 places below Liverpool,
but if they were to pull off a shock victory here today,
they would go above Jürgen Klopp's side.
[fan] I don't know why but I'm quietly confident about this game,
I have no idea why.
[fan 2] I think that Arteta, it's his time to show
how good he is and I trust him, I really trust him.
[Arteta] Okay, guys, the last two days we have discussed a lot
about what we have to do in the tactical level, technical level of the game.
Now I'm going to tell you how we have to win the game
and how we're going to compete in this game.
And first of all, to compete, guys, we have to be like this in this pitch.
Like this. And this doesn't break for 96 minutes.
In the last few days, maybe you saw me, and I put the music
because on this pitch, I am a little bit emotional
and I'm gonna tell you why I'm emotional.
When I had that shirt and I was there, I came here.
For a long time, they didn't win here
and we won 2 years in a row here.
But there was the next year and I was prepared to come here,
I was believing that we could win. Do you know what happened?
We start to lose the game.
And they were all over us, and you know what I did myself?
I hid and I gave up on the pitch.
We lost 5-1. I gave up.
I never forgot for the rest of my career what I did here, I never did.
Don't leave anything on that fucking pitch
because it's a regret that I don't see.
I let the team down and I let myself down,
and I don't want you to go through that.
So, go out there, guys, and play with fucking courage
and be ourselves today on that pitch.
Do me please only that favour. Yeah?
[applause]
[crowd cheers]
[suspenseful music]
[cheers]
[music continues]
[commentator] Tavares has won it back just in front of the centre circle.
He's quite an interesting character, Nuno Tavares.
He's been given the opportunity again today with Tierney back fit,
he's on the bench,
so I think that just proves over the last couple of games
he's deserved his opportunity to stay in this starting 11.
[narrator] The opening 30 minutes are fiercely contested.
[commentator] Lovely cross in towards the near post
and Saka dipped his head but didn't get proper contact on it.
Drops towards Thiago, left-footed shot,
scooped by the goalkeeper, Mané is there, double save from Ramsdale,
stops it from going beyond him and into the net.
[crowd booing]
That's a late challenge from Mané.
It's brought the Arsenal bench to their feet.
There's a bit of argy-bargy going down on the touchline,
and Arteta and Klopp have come squaring up face-to-face,
and now they're throwing arms at one another and snarling and spitting
and getting rather heated on the touchline.
Lacazette has spotted the run of Aubameyang
and across comes Fabinho
and puts out the fire before it bursts into flames.
-Listen to that crowd now. -Yeah, they fancy it.
[cheers]
Free kick to Liverpool 15 yards outside the penalty area,
6 minutes before half-time.
It's aimed in towards Mané who headers it beyond Ramsdale!
And Liverpool lead by a goal to nil.
[crowd cheers]
[whistle]
[Arteta] Guys, we have to stay in the game.
The chances will come.
We have to stay aggressive,
we have to manage the game a little bit better in the middle of the park.
Believe til the last minute. Are we on it? Yes?
[cheers]
[tense music]
[whistle]
[commentator] Arsenal get the second half underway looking to restore parity.
Tavares runs it at the defence and gives it straight to Jota
and Diogo Jota goes around Ramsdale...
and scores for Liverpool.
[crowd cheers]
Nuno Tavares with the back pass and Arsenal...
Well, they've been punished.
Tavares, nice step away from his marker,
but he walks straight into two Liverpool players.
Mané down the left, he's got Salah waiting inside the area,
he finds him and it's a goal.
Easy goal.
[tense music]
Here's Salah.
Alexander-Arnold.
And the first touch for Takumi Minamino
is to put the ball in the net.
[whistle]
There is the full-time whistle.
Liverpool lay waste to Arsenal's unbeaten run, in emphatic style.
[tense music]
[Aaron] We have to go again, eh?
No fucking moping about.
Guys, we were 10 games unbeaten after the start that we had.
You come, in my opinion, to the toughest place in this league
and we sustained them for 45 minutes because we did most of the time
what we had to do. Even if they were superior,
and we have to accept that, that they were better than us.
But in the first 20 minutes of the second half, guys,
the team break apart.
I just suffer for you,
because I know how tough it is to be there 2-0, 3-0, 4-0
and keep going and going and going.
I asked for one thing before the game,
that's for nobody to hide and they didn't.
And the errors or the mistakes, believe me, I throw them in the bin.
It's part of the learning process and it's part of this profession.
I will defend you out there, guys, don't worry, because I will defend you.
If anything, it's my mistake, I will take responsibility.
So, pick it up and stay together,
and on Monday, guys, head up and we'll start again. Okay?
[podcast] Do you wonder about that moment when Mikel Arteta
got in Klopp's face and it ignited the crowd?
[man] That was naïve for me.
[man 2] Just gassed them up.
[man] At Anfield, you don't want to be gassing up that crowd
and whipping them up.
[tense music]
[narrator] The games keep coming.
Arsenal bounce back against Newcastle, but Aubameyang fails to score.
[commentator] Smith-Rowe! Good save. Aubameyang!
[commentator] How has he missed from there?
[narrator] Arsenal then travel to Old Trafford
and lose to their old rivals.
[commentator] Cristiano Ronaldo!
[crowd cheers]
[narrator] Aubameyang is subbed off for the second game in a row.
[commentator] And off goes Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
[commentator] Not really fired tonight.
It's kind of where he's been in the last few games.
[narrator] Arsenal's form has faltered,
losing 2 of their last 3 games.
They are not picking up points and their rivals are gaining ground.
[tense music]
[intriguing music]
[podcast] When you go to Anfield,
you pick your best team and I think Kieran Tierney is our best left-back,
and I feel like that was a mistake.
[man] At Old Trafford, why would Arteta take off his captain?
[man] You start to wonder and you're looking behind the scenes...
Is all well between the player and the manager?
[Arteta] One of the biggest advice that Pep gave me...
He used to tell me "This is the loneliest profession."
When you close that door,
it's you and your worries and your issues and your...
decisions that are always there.
I don't regret one bit the decisions that I make.
Every difficult moment is making me a better person or a better professional,
is preparing me for something that is going to come forward,
for another challenge.
This is the way I take it, it's my decision to be here.
Guys, get together please.
There are things that we have to get better and we have to improve
and one of them is a very strong link when we drop our intensity a little bit,
guys, the way the game changes
and I will show you that more in units to convince you
how important that is and how much of a strength it is for us
when we are able to maintain the high intensity
with the players that we have right now
and the way we are trying to play.
This week, giving higher intensity,
more commitment and raise the level of the quality.
So, now is the moment to raise the level and everybody alive
because I can make changes.
Don't think that we're gonna play all the time the same team, guys.
So, earn it and the best way to earn it is not talking, is to do it on the pitch
in the week, yeah?
Let's go.
[suspenseful music]
[narrator] With his team starting to stumble in the league,
Mikel needs a win.
He is closely monitoring the players' performances in training
to decide his upcoming line-up for the next game against Everton.
[Arteta] He seems very relaxed at the moment.
[Round] Difficult one, that one,
because is he ready to come out or can he go again?
[Arteta laughing]
[Nuno] I know the fans like KT, I can feel that,
but I will try to fight
for my position.
It's not me against Kieran,
it's about the position to play to Arsenal.
Kieran, in the first two phases of the build-up,
when the ball arrives, in this case, to Tomi
and we make maybe three highs and they come,
all the time keep an eye inside.
Liverpool away, Newcastle home, Man U away,
I was just on the bench
and it's the first time that it had ever happened to me.
And it was just a hard one to take.
The reality is that both of us want to play,
and that's just the nature of the game.
[cheers]
[Arteta] Good session. Well done, boys.
[applause]
No extras today, everybody in.
[narrator] After training,
Nuno is meeting with development coach Carlos Cuesta
to discuss his recent performances.
[Cuesta speaking in Spanish] I want to understand one thing.
If you don't understand something, tell me.
I want to understand why, Nuno,
some days you are up to here, others you are here,
and others only here.
And I understand we are people.
People have better days and worse days.
But I want to understand it.
[Nuno] I don't know.
[Nuno] I think about my mistakes
because that's what stays in my head...
Not the good things I did on the pitch.
I think, in your head,
you always think about what you did wrong in the game.
[in Portuguese] What do you mean?
[in Spanish] You are going to make mistakes.
It's normal, don't worry about it.
We'll correct them and they won't be repeated.
Maybe you will make different ones. It's normal.
And you have everything.
You have intelligence to be a champion.
And what I want is to help you.
Here, Nuno, you will find people that help you.
Carlos, he can understand players because he's young too.
He help me get better
and improve.
I knew you were up to something!
[narrator] After losing their last two away matches,
the team prepare to travel North once again.
[journalist] Everton up next.
They're going through quite a rough patch at the moment.
What are your thoughts on the situation there at the moment?
The moment that you lose a game or two,
the pressure is coming for everybody, it's no different there.
[journalist] After the United game,
it was Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer were talking about the game
and they expressed concern.
There was an issue between yourself and your skipper
because you took him off with 15 minutes to go.
There's no rift, is there?
I can guarantee you there is none of that.
They were saying it was humiliating for him to be taken off,
but I mean, presumably Pierre-Emerick doesn't feel like that?
Well, that is the last word I would use,
to do something with my players, that's for sure,
because if that's humiliating,
imagine the ones that are not in the squad.
[tense music]
Tierney's back in the side, I'm happy.
I like Tavares but he's very raw, as you can tell.
-[fan] Aubameyang on the bench. -Yeah, dropped, rightly so, I think.
Yeah, definitely, definitely.
[commentator] Kieran Tierney is one of the four changes.
He's in for Nuno Tavares.
Tierney, who had missed the last 6 Premier League games.
[crowd cheers]
Just keep the start of the game. To get the momentum that we want,
we have to take the game to the ground, to the final third and stay there.
On that pitch, something has to be seen, guys.
What I experienced with you guys in the last three or four days,
your cohesion, your chemistry,
I want to see that on the pitch, guys.
Have that chemistry, transmit that energy, that commitment.
The players that are playing,
the guys that are here will be so important when they come in, all of you.
And the staff, let's fucking go with it.
-Let's go! -[cheers]
[suspenseful music]
[crowd cheers]
[commentator] So, here we go, the Monday night game at Goodison Park,
it's Everton against Arsenal.
[music continues]
[commentator] It's come through to Doucouré who swivels and shoots,
but he was off balance. That was a chance for Everton.
Here's Richarlison into the penalty area.
Everton have just increased the tempo a little bit.
Defender goes down, Gordon shoots, comes off Tomiyasu.
Everton fans are enjoying what they're seeing here, this is better.
[crowd cheers]
[commentator] This is better football, here's Tierney.
That's a decent ball and they've scored!
Martin Odegaard! The Gunners' first opportunity after a quality move.
[commentator] Tierney going through the gears and finding his feet
at just the right point of the half with a beautiful ball.
[commentator] Arsenal have been poor this 1st half,
their goal has been against the run of play
and they're going to have to step up their game in the 2nd half
if they want to keep this lead.
We're causing our own problems, come on.
[Bukayo] Boys, we play only backwards, only backwards.
So why do you think this is gonna happen?
One time we play forward we score.
[Arteta] I really have to take you, all of you, in the byline
to give you, to react
and to start to demand yourself if you want to play at this level, guys!
Do I have to do that?
You've been fucking lucky. Lucky!
With the ball you have advantages everywhere, do you realise that?
I want to see a team with fucking different characters
and now is the moment to take the ball, take the ball and play.
I don't want to be defending, I want high press,
take the ball and attack them and go for the second one.
Play!
[players] Let's go! Let's go!
[tense music]
[crowd shouts]
[narrator] With just ten minutes left on the clock,
Arsenal look like they might escape with a win.
[commentator] Could be a big night for Arsenal.
They might be about to move to within one point of the Champions League places.
It's off the crossbar and then there's a rebound, it's in!
Richarlison! Everton 1, Arsenal 1!
What an atmosphere now!
Goodison Park as loud as it's been all night.
Demarai Gray will now bear down on the Arsenal penalty area,
hit the crossbar from here a while ago, hits the back of the net here!
It's a match-winning goal.
From 1-0 down, they're gonna win this game 2-1.
-[whistle] -There is the final whistle.
[tense music]
[crowd cheering]
[Aaron] That's fucking embarrassing.
Ten minutes to go, throw-in in our fucking final third.
Throw the ball long...
Defend the fucking game, so fucking naïve.
I don't want to regret anything that I am going to say now
so I prefer not to say much.
But the reaction here is late.
Here is too late. It's there.
Okay, I have to announce you something.
Following the last disciplinary issue that we had with Auba,
we have decided as a club
that he is no longer our captain.
[tense music]
[commentator] Mikel Arteta's tested positive for Covid-19
and will miss the game against Manchester City.
Fucking go out there and win this fucking match.
[commentator] Saka with a shot. Saka with a goal.
[commentator] And it's a red card.
[tense music]