{"id":662206,"date":"2025-12-10T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662206"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:52:03","slug":"mikel-arteta-reacts-arsenal-vs-club-brugge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/10\/mikel-arteta-reacts-arsenal-vs-club-brugge\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta Delighted After 3-0 Win Against Club Brugge and Praises Summer Signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal continued their perfect start to this season\u2019s Champions League, with a 3-0 win against Club Brugge at the Jan Breydel Stadium. Despite some changes to his regular starting XI, the Gunners enjoyed a fairly routine night, with two goals from Noni Madueke and one from Gabriel Martinelli. Following the win, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/arsenal-fc\/news\/arsenal-press-conference-live-mikel-33036546\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikel Arteta spoke to the press<\/a>, praising individuals for their impact in Arsenal&#8217;s latest Champions League victory.<\/p>\n<h2>Mikel Arteta Reacts to Arsenal 3-0 Club Brugge<\/h2>\n<h3>Arteta Praises Certain Players for Impact<\/h3>\n<p>Reacting to his team\u2019s win, Arteta was full of positivity, singling out Christian Norgaard for praise:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA really positive evening and we did it with a lot of absences in the back line. I love the way the team reacted to that. What Norgaard has done just talks about how much better he makes us with his attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/04\/best-arsenal-players-number-14-jersey\/\" target=\"_self\">Best Arsenal Players to Wear the Number 14 Jersey Ever<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discussing the return of Gabriel Jesus, a delighted Arteta said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo happy for him, I think you can see how much we love him. A long journey for eleven months and he&#8217;s been fighting with that energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing Madueke\u2019s goal and his form: \u201cUnbelievable goal. A player who can travel that far with the ball&#8230; and score,\u201d said Arteta. \u201cIt is about consistency, about players that play. We need the standards. It&#8217;s not a game, two games, its about whether you can do it ten games in a row,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/03\/best-arsenal-players-number-1-jersey\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Best Arsenal Players to Wear the Number 1 Jersey Ever<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Gabriel Jesus and Viktor Gyokeres<\/h3>\n<p>The return of Gabriel Jesus is a huge boost for Arteta. A player who is proven in the Premier League, who gives the Gunners boss another vital option in attack. The Brazilian is a different player than Viktor Gyokeres, and when asked about the difference between the two, Arteta said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey cannot be more different. Both of them have qualities that are very specific in what they bring to the team. So it&#8217;s good to have two very different players.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>Arsenal are back in action on September 13 in the 20:00 GMT kick-off slot against Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Emirates.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Uk Sports Pics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal continued their perfect start to this season\u2019s Champions League, with a 3-0 win against Club Brugge at the Jan Breydel Stadium. Despite some changes to his regular starting XI, the Gunners enjoyed a fairly routine night, with two goals from Noni Madueke and one from Gabriel Martinelli. Following the win, Mikel Arteta spoke to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":658239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,378],"tags":[267,897,4372,8715,31697],"class_list":["post-662206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-champions-league","tag-club-brugge","tag-gabriel-jesus","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-noni-madueke","tag-viktor-gyokeres"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662210,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662206\/revisions\/662210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}