{"id":1982,"date":"2026-04-11T19:33:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:33:57","slug":"arteta-in-shock-it-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"Arteta in shock: &#8216;It hurts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta has castigated the basic shortcomings of his players after the rout suffered against Bournemouth this Saturday in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Arsenal lost to Bournemouth (1-2) at home this Saturday in the Premier League. Three lost points that the Gunners could bitterly regret as the final sprint is in full swing.<\/p>\n<p>Accounting, the current leader of the English championship is not immune to seeing a new crown escape him. Indeed, its runner-up Manchester City is nine points behind with two games in hand, including a match against Mikel Arteta&#8217;s men in just over a week, after 30 days played out of a total of 38.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cA big punch in the face\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>In the post-match conference, the Spanish coach admitted that this result was \u201ca big punch in the face\u201d. Arteta also admitted his team lacked fundamentals. <em>\u201cThere were some very basic things that we did extremely poorly today. It can happen, it&#8217;s football. It hurts, you have to take the hit. We have to get up and fight. Know how to react to this \u00bb<\/em>he admitted to journalists.<\/p>\n<p>For their part, Manchester City will meet on the Chelsea pitch this Saturday afternoon. The Skyblues could take advantage of this to reduce their gap on the Emirates and achieve a third success in a row.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"bloc_resume_post\">\n<h2 class=\"bloc_resume_post_title\">IN BRIEF<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"bloc_resume_post_list\">\n<li>Arsenal lost 1-2 to Bournemouth at home this Saturday in the Premier League, compromising their leading position against Manchester City.<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Arteta called the defeat a &#8220;big punch in the face&#8221; and highlighted his team&#8217;s fundamental errors.<\/li>\n<li>Manchester City, with two games in hand, could close the gap when they face Chelsea this afternoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta has castigated the basic shortcomings of his players after the rout suffered against Bournemouth this Saturday in the Premier League. Arsenal lost to Bournemouth (1-2) at home this Saturday in the Premier League. Three lost points that the Gunners could bitterly regret as the final sprint is in full swing. Accounting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}