Press conference: Mikel Arteta on Chelsea, team news, transfer plans and more

  Arsenal are preparing to face Chelsea in the Premier League on Tuesday. Ahead of the game, the Gunners head coach Mikel Arteta gave a press conference where he spoke out on their 3-1 win over West Brom on Sunday, as well as provided team news and more. On the West Brom win "Obviously winning helps and it was our duty to get the points that we needed at home, and to try to finish the season as strong as possible after the disappointment that we had." On Chelsea "Well probably they’ve been the best team in the league in the last few months, what Thomas has been able to do since he arrived has been exceptional. He put the team in two finals, the way the team is looking, how solid they are defensively as well, how composed and regular they have been in their performance has been excellent." On team news "Well the situation with David [Luiz] is that he is not yet recovered, we will see how he does in the next few weeks. The rest are still in contention but we will have to see today how they come." On transfer plans "We've been sitting down the whole year. We've been in constant communication and things will change, some things will stick to the plan that we already had and some other things will come out. But we sit down very, very regularly to talk about those things." On pre-season plans "We are trying to finalise everything, with the Covid world, it’s been a real challenge to get any games or pre-season tour sorted out, but hopefully in the next week that will be confirmed and we can announce that, but this is what we’re trying to do. Obviously the Euros is going to condition the return dates of the players in relation to what they do in the tournament, so there’s still some question marks."   source - football.london / Join us on Telegram!/ Follow us on Twitter!

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