Arteta: Arsenal must use ´rage´ from Bournemouth defeat in Paris

Mikel Arteta has called connected Arsenal to usage the “rage” caused by their astonishment decision to Bournemouth erstwhile they sojourn Paris Saint-Germain for a do-or-die Champions League clash.

Four days connected from a constrictive 1-0 decision astatine location to PSG successful the archetypal limb of their European semi-final tie, Arsenal were beaten astatine the Emirates Stadium again connected Saturday.

Declan Rice enactment the Gunners up precocious successful the archetypal half, but Dean Huijsen and Evanilson struck aft the interruption to flip the crippled connected its head.

Arsenal person present won conscionable 1 of their past 5 Premier League matches (three draws, 1 defeat) and are conscionable 3 points wide of third-placed Manchester City with 3 games remaining.

Should Newcastle United, Chelsea and Nottingham Forest triumph their games connected Sunday and Monday, Arteta’s men could yet look a conflict to unafraid a top-five finish.

Arsenal spell to the Parc des Princes for their instrumentality limb against PSG connected Wednesday, hoping to go conscionable the 3rd squad to scope the Champions League last aft losing the archetypal limb of their semi-final necktie astatine home, aft Ajax successful 1996 and Tottenham successful 2019.

And Arteta wants them to gully connected the symptom of Saturday’s loss, telling BBC Match of the Day: “We started the crippled and a batch of the things we wanted happened.

“We should person killed the game, and we didn’t. On apical of that, if you support your container from 2 set-pieces successful the mode we person done, you’re successful big, big, trouble.

“We should person enactment the crippled to bed. We defended truly poorly, obscurity adjacent the standards that we are utilized to.

“We wanted to make the momentum and a truly affirmative vibe contiguous – we haven’t.

“What we person created is frustration, rage and choler – we person to marque definite we usage that connected Wednesday.”

Arsenal conceded 2 goals from set-piece situations (excluding penalties) successful the aforesaid Premier League crippled for the archetypal clip since December 2023 against Luton Town.

It was besides the archetypal clip the Gunners mislaid a location Premier League crippled having led astatine half-time since January 2022 (2-1 versus Man City), halting a streak of 63 specified matches without decision (53 wins, 10 draws).

It besides meant Bournemouth completed their first-ever league treble implicit Arsenal, having ne'er antecedently avoided decision connected their travels against them successful each competitions, successful 8 attempts.

The effect provides a large boost to the Cherries’ hopes of claiming eighth spot and perchance reaching the Europa Conference league, and manager Andoni Iraola knows however important the 3 points could be.

He told BBC Sport: “I deliberation we needed this 1 due to the fact that we cognize the docket we have. Arsenal, Aston Villa, City… you person to get points wherever you don’t expect to.

“We missed a fewer chances precocious and we needed it to spell our mode this time.

“I liked the crippled overall. The cardinal was the set-plays successful the 2nd half. In the end, successful these adjacent games, making the quality with set-plays is the cardinal to getting 3 points.”