Arsenal v Shakhtar Donetsk (Tue, 20:00 BST)
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has called on his side to use the “pain” of their first defeat in six months as motivation for their Champions League meeting with Shakhtar Donetsk.
The Gunners lost ground on Premier League leaders Liverpool on Saturday after they were beaten 2-0 at Bournemouth following William Saliba’s first-half sending off.
Arsenal return to European action on Tuesday when they host Shakhtar at Emirates Stadium and Arteta wants his players to quickly “move on” after the loss.
“You have a defeat, that’s part of the game, it happens in very specific conditions as well,” he said.
“Let’s move on, take that pain we still have in the tummy and use it for tomorrow night.
“It puts a bit of perspective into the situation. Obviously we want to win in any context. The reality is that we have made that context very difficult for ourselves.
“It was very difficult already with the amount of players that we had out and the schedule and the games that we had to play, but that’s the reality.
“For that game we didn’t get away with it. We could have done and it could have been a very different narrative, but the reality is we didn’t. Another context is that we have lost one game in six months. Now we have to win again.”
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