'Extremely proud' - Arteta praises players after Arsenal win at Anfield for first time in 14 years

Now it feels better as a manager because it's been such a long time without having this feeling here that we really needed it. We are extremely proud of what the team, the players, everybody's done. And yeah, especially in the conditions that we arrived to this game, where we were after the defeat against Fleetwood. It looks like the end of the world. It looks like, yeah, what are we doing? Then you have to pick yourself up, understand that this is the beautiful part of... This game, that's when you believe that you have done everything and deserve to win the game. Clearly, you are out of the cup and then for this later you have to come to Anfield against this manager, against this team that they are in a really good moment and compete, perform and have the right to win the game in the manner that we've done. Just loving the the mission and the mission was something that we didn't accomplish in 14 years and there were reasons to that. Some of them were psychological problems, some of them were related to the quality that we showed on the pitch. Certain there are moments or decisions and we knew that we need to nail absolutely all of them and we're gonna have to navigate through periods. We're going to have to suffer because they are extremely good at doing that and creating those vertical attacks, those chaos moments for almost nothing and you really need to enjoy that. If you don't, there will be a moment that you will switch off and they will punish you. I think the way we competed and played and the chances that we generated as well, it was really impressive so I'm really happy. It was a feeling, how the hell can happen, how can you get out of the cup when you shoot 27 times, we have the chances that we had against a team that had put one shot on target and then you look so silly, you know, and then you have to go to Anfield and say how can I lift those players up and I had the feeling, I said now is the moment, we're going to do it, we're going to have to dig deep, have an element of luck at times and for sure a lot of quality in the key moments and we've done it.