{"id":233882,"date":"2025-08-06T21:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/it-was-painful-arteta-on-arsenals-3-2-loss-to-villarreal\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:03:32","slug":"it-was-painful-arteta-on-arsenals-3-2-loss-to-villarreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/it-was-painful-arteta-on-arsenals-3-2-loss-to-villarreal\/","title":{"rendered":"It was painful \u2013 Arteta on Arsenal\u2019s 3-2 loss to Villarreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was painful \u2013 Arteta on Arsenal\u2019s 3-2 loss to Villarreal<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has admitted their 3\u20132 defeat to Villarreal was \u201cpainful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners lost in front of their supporters in the Emirates Cup game on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Pepe opened the scoring against his former side before Karl Etta Eyong doubled Villarreal\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts pulled one back after Christian Norgaard headed in Gabriel Martinelli\u2019s corner-kick.<\/p>\n<p>Arnaut Danjuma raced through to restore the Yellow Submarines\u2019 lead, before Martin Odegaard converted a penalty after Max Dowman was fouled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I think the result is painful,\u201d Arteta said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019ve been super-efficient but we\u2019ve been na\u00efve, especially the way we have defended open spaces and that\u2019s something that, especially the way we play, we have to absolutely nail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we haven\u2019t been good at all in that department and that has cost us the game, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>arsenal, arteta, villarreal,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/08\/06\/it-was-painful-arteta-on-arsenals-3-2-loss-to-villarreal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was painful \u2013 Arteta on Arsenal\u2019s 3-2 loss to Villarreal Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has admitted their 3\u20132 defeat to Villarreal was \u201cpainful.\u201d The Gunners lost in front of their supporters in the Emirates Cup game on Wednesday evening. Nicolas Pepe opened the scoring against his former side before Karl Etta Eyong doubled Villarreal\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[443,1315,1322],"class_list":["post-233882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-arteta","tag-villarreal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}