Football fans call on Arteta for ‘comparison’ reactions after spurs’ Trophy Joy

Arsenal will end the season as Premier League tweede, but Rivals Spurs will join them in the Champions League after their Europa League Final Triumph

Football fans quickly picked up Mikel Arteta about his comments about comparing clubs. The Arsenal manager was asked about the Europa League victory of Tottenham Hotspur, but tried to stay away from any comparisons with his own five-year-old trophy-dried on the other side of the Divide in North London.

During a press conference, Arteta was asked if Premier League runner-up Arsenal or Trophy-Winners Spurs could say they had a better season. “I don’t like to compare with other teams,” he said. “I have to analyze my team – that’s my job”.

However, it is not that long since Arteta wax Make comparisons with other teams after Liverpool won the title, despite the shortage of Arsenal’s scoring of last season. “Winning trophies is also about it at the right time, in the right place,” he said at the beginning of May.

“Liverpool won the title with fewer points than we have in the past two seasons. With the points of the last two seasons we would have two Premier League titles.

“So you have to be at the right time, in the right place. Hopefully we will be here at the right time, in the right place in Paris, to earn the right to be in the final.”

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It did not take long before fans point out the change in his language. “This Mikel Arteta that does not like to compare with other teams … … is it the same Mikel Arteta that constantly seems to talk about other teams?” asked one.

“The points of his teams have compared a total of less than 2 weeks ago with Liverpool, compared teams that ended with his teams with the 8th, 16th and 17th injury. But he doesn’t like comparison,” wrote another.

“Did he not compared Liverpool and Arsenal’s points until last week?” A third asked. Another repeated that comment and said: “Does not like to compare with other teams, he did not make a point about having more points last year than Liverpool this year only a week ago …”

Arteta won the FA Cup in his first season as an Arsenal manager, but did not have added to that trophy count. Yet he had a clear answer when he was asked about football with a binary nature where success is measured in trophies.

“I mean, you will only evaluate that, use those two words and that’s it. But then, I think, make decisions based,” he said. “So next season you don’t do that, you’re gone. If you do, you’re here forever.

“I don’t know what it is, because last night is really a good example of that. Or the final between Inter and PSG, because they are only judged if they win it. If not, they will go again like the last 12 years that they have tried. They are very different after that.”

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