Before each recreation at Emirates Stadium, Martin Odegaard lifts the lid on the temper within the camp by way of his captain’s notes revealed within the matchday programme.
Ahead of right this moment’s recreation towards Chelsea, Martin displays on our sensible derby day final Sunday, and turns his consideration to a different key capital conflict when Chelsea arrive, and what it is like enjoying them so ceaselessly. Here is a snippet:
It was a terrific end result final weekend. To win the derby is all the time massive, however particularly given the best way we did it, it was even more particular.
Following on from the draw we had at Wolves there was a whole lot of frustration. Our response was sensible, and in these few days between the 2 video games we did very well as a bunch and as a crew. We targeted on ourselves and put in a powerful efficiency. The approach we acquired collectively in these few days was very important to the end result on the weekend in my view.
When you drop factors like we did at Wolves, it’s all the time going to be irritating. It will be straightforward to let all of the response from the skin world have an effect on you. But as a bunch, we acquired collectively, helped to get one another again up and appeared on the greater image. We knew a giant derby like that was the right recreation to have subsequent as properly. So we have been prepared, we have been ready and we put in a high efficiency as properly.
What a day it was for Ebs! His stats towards them are simply loopy now. To get a hat-trick in his first north London derby and then two more final weekend is simply unbelievable, and I do know he scored a pair towards them final season too. But even not together with the objectives, I believed his total efficiency was nice. He performed very well and actually deserved these objectives. We have been all so pleased for him.
Vik as properly scored two more objectives and in equity he has been enjoying that approach for some time now. As a striker I do know he likes to get the objectives, and that offers him even more confidence and a special feeling on the pitch, however I feel he’s been nice the entire time. You can actually see that now with the objectives coming more and more usually, but additionally what he offers us on the pitch aside from the objectives is very large. He’s doing very well and once more we’re all pleased for him.
I heard it was 70 years since we final received 4 video games in a row away to Tottenham, so we must be proud as a bunch to be concerned in a run like this in the meanwhile. We know what the sport means to our supporters, so that is large for us, it’s a terrific stat for us to have!
Our focus all week has been on right this moment’s recreation towards Chelsea, who we have now performed rather a lot not too long ago. The final recreation within the cup was a bit totally different as a result of they have been fairly defensive, so it was a decent recreation with not a lot area for both crew. Other video games towards them have been fairly open so we must see what it’s like right this moment. What we do know is that they’ve plenty of gamers with particular person high quality, so we anticipate it to be a tricky one once more.
For us, it’s about attempting to play our personal recreation and impacting it how we need to. You need to adapt a bit to what the opposition are doing and their model and their approach of enjoying, however we have now to be ourselves and play our recreation initially, particularly at dwelling. It’s one other massive London derby and we’re all simply feeling excited to play and go once more.
Read the remainder of Martin’s notes, in addition to a bunch of different implausible content material, by shopping for the Arsenal v Chelsea programme both across the stadium or online.
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