{"id":508753,"date":"2026-02-20T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508753"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:12:18","slug":"arteta-arsenal-are-exactly-where-we-want-them-to-be","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arteta-arsenal-are-exactly-where-we-want-them-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta: \u2018Arsenal are exactly where we want them to be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta shares that his team is &#8220;exactly where we want to be&#8221; in every tournament despite criticism after the draw vs. last-placed Wolverhampton two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The North London club allowed a goal in the extra time as the Wolves fought back from 2 goals behind to win a point and to give a chance to Man City to make the Gunners\u2019 lead at the top of the Premier League only 2 points tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are still in control of their own destiny as they chase a 1<sup>st<\/sup> championship since 2004, with a 5-point advantage over the Sky Blues, but have played 1 more game than Guardiola\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must live in the present,\u201d Arteta revealed. \u201cWhat we have achieved in the past is good, but we must live in the present, and the present is phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team still has a chance to win every trophy possible, and we must focus now to earn it as we have done in the past 7 or 8 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s manager added that his team will be looking to channel both the disappointment vs. Wolverhampton and the emotion of their North London derby against Tottenham at the weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Mikel Arteta: \u201cI was a player. Love me when I draw or when I lose. To love you when I win is very, very easy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to love the players and be next to them when they need it the most\u201d.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeanymanSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BeanymanSports<\/a> \ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VVYJ8bo9fE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VVYJ8bo9fE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2024919239878983862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta shares that his team is &#8220;exactly where we want to be&#8221; in every tournament despite criticism after the draw vs. last-placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508571,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18106],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[366,1076],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Gunners boss claimed that things are under control.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508754,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508753\/revisions\/508754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508753"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508753"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}