Arsenal press conference LIVE: Mikel Arteta on Nottingham Forest, team news and injuries

On offside rules

Happy depends on the situation you have to face. To everything they can to simplify to bring as much clarity as possible.

On top of that, there is maybe a new rule coming...

On Nottingham Forest

Winning away from home in the Premier League is extremely tough. We have shown they are different, and that's what makes them so dangerous.

On Zubimendi

Very happy, in the manner that he has set about the club. When you talk about any member of the staff or the club, very positive.

He has earned the respect very very quickly and of the supporters. He's very humble, very focused.

On Old Trafford and City playing before you as a distraction

We can only focus on what we can do. When you have the possibility of what you can do.

When you prepare for the game, and you have to win it.

On Nott'm Forest

A lot, a top coach. Really good at what he does. In the team the way they play. The things they are constantly [making you do].

On the challenge of so many away games

In certain things yes. What we have to train, what we have to replicate?

We have more players back now, we have better options.

Fresh injury concerns?

No.

Any of Hincapie, Calafiori, Mosquera and Dowman available?

Might be, I need to meet the medical staff to see if any could be.

Arsenal player ratings vs Chelsea as Viktor Gyokeres stars with five other big scorers

Arsenal secured an important first leg victory over Chelsea in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final. After the disappointment at Stamford Bridge in the league, Mikel Arteta’s side certainly avenged the result.

The visitors took the lead inside the opening seven minutes after a Declan Rice corner once again found a teammate, this time Ben White. Viktor Gyokeres would score after the break, following a Robert Sanchez error.

However, Alejandro Garnacho was there at the back post to smash in and claw Chelsea back into the tie. The lead was shorted for just 14 minutes as Martin Zubimendi curled in a wonderful left-footed effort.

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The instruction Viktor Gyokeres fulfilled against Chelsea to Mikel Arteta and Arsenal delight

Insistence has brought about reward for Viktor Gyokeres, and subsequently Arsenal as the Swede provided Mikel Arteta with a goal and an assist against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. The victory for the Gunners puts them in a commanding position for the second leg at the Emirates Stadium in a few weeks’ time.

Gyokeres needed a big performance, and there were encouraging signs in the opening stages of the game. A shot at goal blocked, some good runs and duels being fought brought some hope that big things were coming, but few might’ve predicted the impact he would have.

When asked at the end of December, when the goal drought was seven games long, Arteta gave the striker one instruction: to keep insisting. Effectively, to keep doing more of the good he was doing, with his runs and movement.

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Welcome

Hello and welcome to Mikel Arteta's pre-match press conference ahead of Arsenal's match with Nottingham Forest.

football.london will be hearing from the Gunners boss at the Sobha Realty Training Centre.

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