{"id":9573,"date":"2026-11-05T05:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/ucl-a-lot-to-learn-arteta-critical-of-arsenal-performance-despite-win-over-slavia-prague\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T05:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:46:24","slug":"ucl-a-lot-to-learn-arteta-critical-of-arsenal-performance-despite-win-over-slavia-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/ucl-a-lot-to-learn-arteta-critical-of-arsenal-performance-despite-win-over-slavia-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"UCL: &#8216;A Lot To Learn&#8217; \u2013 Arteta Critical Of Arsenal Performance Despite Win Over Slavia Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has offered a blunt assessment of the club\u2019s performance, declaring his team still has \u201ca lot to learn\u201d despite grinding out a 2\u20131 Champions League victory away to Slavia Prague on Wednesday, November 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League champions were far from clinical in the Czech Republic, though early goals from Noni Madueke and Viktor Gy\u00f6keres, who struck just past the 30-minute mark, appeared to put the visitors in total control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/2026-u-17-wwc-playing-in-the-final-is-a-big-privilege-flamingos-goal-scorer-reacts-after-win-over-brazil\/\">2026 U-17 WWC: \u2018Playing In The Final Is A Big Privilege\u2019 \u2013Flamingos Goal Scorer Reacts After Win Over Brazil<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, a sloppy second-half display allowed Slavia back into the contest, culminating in a 90th-minute goal from Wiktor Nowak that ensured a nervous finish for the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to TNT Sports post-match, Arteta refused to paper over the cracks of an unconvincing second half.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"csa1x-widget csbw-odds-card\" aria-label=\"Match odds\">\n<p><label class=\"csbw-oddschip\"><span class=\"csbw-oddsbar__label\">Show odds<\/span><button class=\"csbw-oddsswitch\" type=\"button\" role=\"switch\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-label=\"Show odds\" data-csbw-global=\"1\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"csa1x-actions\">\n<details class=\"csa1x-tipster-details csbw-article-tips\">\n<summary class=\"csa1x-tipster-toggle\">Match prediction<\/summary>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAlways we need to value winning away in the Champions League\u2014it is extremely difficult,\u201d Arteta said. \u201cTwo very different halves. We should have had three or four goals in the first half, but we didn\u2019t do it. Right at the start of the second half we were on the back foot, very sloppy and gave balls away. Then we had to suffer. A lot to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/2026-u-17-wwc-brazil-coach-rilany-laments-defeat-to-flamingos\/\">2026 U-17 WWC: Brazil Coach Rilany Laments Defeat To Flamingos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defending his decision to rotate the squad, the Arsenal boss insisted he had no regrets despite the drop in standards after the break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should have scored more in the first half and if we didn\u2019t do that we had to go and do that in the second half,\u201d he added. \u201cWe made six changes but we know the quality of the players we have. Whether we were lacking something I don\u2019t know, but I would have done the same thing again. I value what the team has done now\u2014that is 11 away games we played.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has offered a blunt assessment of the club\u2019s performance, declaring his team still has \u201ca lot to learn\u201d despite grinding out a 2\u20131 Champions League victory&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}