Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta refused to blame absent players and their three games in a week for Palace draw
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00:00Disappointed with results and with the performance as well, I think we never got the consistency in many areas to completely dominate the game.
00:11We always had the feeling that, yeah, we had the ball, we had possession, we went in front twice, but the game wasn't grabbed, it wasn't dominated and controlled in the way that we normally do,
00:21because we were below the standards in some areas, and yeah, when you are not at your best but you are two times ahead, you have to be able to see the game off,
00:30and we weren't able to do it, especially with what happened in the second game.
00:35That PSG game is obviously just looming, do you think that was in the minds of the players? I know you would want it to be, do you think it was?
00:42Hopefully not, but we discussed that before a switch and it wasn't there, and today we had still six days to prepare that match,
00:49and I don't want to use that, obviously we have missed a lot of players, a lot of players that haven't trained at all,
00:55that we weren't able to do today, so we've been very short, but as well, credit to Palace, they are very well organised,
01:01they are a really good site and they made it difficult for us and the reality as well, that today we are at our best.