Arteta 'astounded' by Arsenal's defensive display against City

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says his side's defensive display was 'outstanding' in what was a 'thrilling' 0-0.

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00:00 A thrilling game, a really tough match, a very demanding opponent but I think we

00:07 competed really really well. I think defensively where I was standing we had

00:10 to go and put on the pressure higher on the pitch. I think we were really

00:14 good and created a lot of difficulties and when they are that good that

00:19 they get you in this low block and it's very difficult to get out of that. They

00:23 drop a lot of players and I think we prevented the spaces really well and

00:27 that's a difficulty. Three years is the first time they haven't scored at home

00:31 in three years so that's a really outstanding team that they are.

00:37 The downside is that we have some big situations to score. We didn't make the

00:42 most out of it and I think the next step is with the ball to have much more

00:46 composure especially in the first phase to attack better.

00:49 You hinted at it there but I mean how much pride can you take from two clean sheets

00:53 against Manchester City?

00:54 Yeah huge, it's extremely difficult to do that but that

00:57 tells you the commitment of every player, discipline that they showed and

01:01 how they compete. One thing is to play a football match and the other one is to

01:05 compete it and against this team we did that today really really well.