Mikel Arteta reveals what he told Bukayo Saka after England's EURO 2020 final loss

Mikel Arteta has revealed he has been in contact with Bukayo Saka after England lost EURO 2020 final to Italy in a penalty shootout. The Three Lions opened the scoring already in the second minute, thanks to Luke Shaw’s goal. However, Leonardo Bonucci equalised the score in the 67th minute. The winner couldn’t be decided both in the main and extra times so the game headed into the penalty shootout. Italy picked up a 3-2 win on penalties and were crowned EURO 2020 champions for the second time in their history. After the penalty shootout, Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka, the players whose efforts were saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma, have been subjected to disgusting racial abuse on social media. And his Gunners boss Arteta confirmed he's been in touch with the wonderkid after these events.

"I have, we all have. He's been down, but the support the love and the admiration of everybody in world football I think is the biggest trophy that he can have," Arteta said following the Gunners' 2-1 pre-season defeat by Hibernian on Tuesday evening.   "He had an incredible season, he was the best player in our club for the whole season, he played for England, he earned the place to play right there at 19.   "What else do you want? Yeah the cup, but you cannot have everything in this football."

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