Arteta proud of 'immense performance'

Mikel Arteta labelled his team’s performance ‘immense’ in our 2-2 draw against Aston Villa, but lamented the defending which allowed the visitors to leave north London with a point.

Playing our sixth game in the past 18 days, we deservedly went 2-0 up, before Villa rallied to earn a draw. It extended our winning run in the league to 12 matches, but saw us fall two points further behind Liverpool at the top of the table.

“I think the performance was immense,” the manager said afterwards. “The boys were incredible, the way they went about it after playing three times in six days so I’m so pleased with the quality of the performance and how much we dominated a very, very good side.

“For…