Gunners eyeing trophies after Carabao Cup final woes, Striker \u2018even more motivated\u2019 for coming games<\/p>\n
Viktor Gy\u00f6keres has articulated the hurt and defiance inside the Arsenal dressing-room after Sunday\u2019s 2-0 Carabao Cup final defeat by Manchester City and promised to use it as fuel in the club\u2019s pursuit of other trophies.
\nArsenal picked a bad time to produce their worst performance of the season with everybody in the starting XI falling well below their best \u2013 apart from maybe William Saliba. No one will want to dwell on the period from the beginning of the second half to the moment when Nico O\u2019Reilly scored his second goal in the 64th minute to put City in an unassailable position. It was one-way traffic, Arsenal pinned back, unable to get out.
\nThe recovery mission has begun with the hunt for positives, some at the club hoping that the international break can offer a well-timed change of environment and focus. For Gy\u00f6keres, there is the small matter of Thursday\u2019s World Cup playoff with Sweden against Ukraine in Valencia. If his country wins, they will face Poland or Albania next Tuesday for a place at the finals.
\nThe Carabao Cup final was only Arsenal\u2019s fourth defeat in 50 matches this season. They remain nine points clear of City at the top of the Premier League, albeit having played one game more than them, and are into the Champions League quarter-finals, where they will play Sporting. Their next game is the FA Cup quarter-final at Southampton on Saturday week.
\n\u201cOf course, we don\u2019t feel great right now but it\u2019s not like we have a game in three days,\u201d Gy\u00f6keres said. \u201cFor sure, we will go again and be even more motivated for those games.\u201d
\nThe showpiece at Wembley turned when the back-up Arsenal goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga \u2013 who Mikel Arteta started ahead of the first-choice David Raya \u2013 dropped a cross to allow O\u2019Reilly to score his first, although City had long established a grip on possession.
\n\u201cWe created some chances at the beginning of the game and then I think it was maybe 10 minutes from the break where they got the momentum,\u201d Gy\u00f6keres said. \u201cI think they had the ball \u2026 maybe they didn\u2019t create so many dangerous chances but they had the ball a long time and it looked the same in the second half.
\n\u201cNormally, when it\u2019s two top teams it can be like that [with the first goal being crucial]. In the moment of the game where they scored \u2026 yeah, it was difficult to get going afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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