Arteta upset after 'painful and sad day'
Mikel Arteta was unhappy, saying Arsenal 'weren't good enough' in their defeat to Fulham
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00:00 Painful and a sad day, that's how I would sum it up. We had the opportunity to be top
00:05 of the table after 20 games with the consistency that we've shown and we haven't managed to
00:13 perform well enough to earn the right to win the game. Three days ago we lost a game that
00:17 we fully deserved to win, today was a very different story.
00:21 We weren't good enough. We simply weren't good enough in ball possession, we got so
00:25 many balls away, we didn't have enough rhythm, enough purpose, enough threat and defensively
00:32 we were second best. We could not control the direct play, it was so easy for them to
00:36 win that first or second ball and have an opportunity to run and we conceded two exactly
00:40 goals like we did against West Ham. If you do that in this league it becomes really difficult
00:44 to win.