Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on the injury blows and adversity they’ve suffered this season and how well they have deal with it ahead of Leicester
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00:00As a coach, does that get your juices flowing, trying to solve a problem like you've decimated
00:06up top?
00:07Yeah, because I don't want to look... I understand the narrative. Any team in this league lose
00:12four players in the front line like those ones, and I know what the answer is going
00:17to be. I don't want to even mention that, because we've been through a lot and we have
00:21sustained the level of performances and results to this point. So we are more than capable
00:27of doing it, and that's the only thing that we're going to be looking at.
00:30Is anything ruled out? Ethan up top, Raheem up top, Renaud up top?
00:35You don't have to be very creative with the options that we have. I'm sure you're going
00:38to get it right.
00:39But you did say at some point quite recently that Ethan has it in him to be able to put
00:40out now, being up top number nine.
00:41Yeah, the thing is when. I think it's in there, it's more than a necessity, it's a real quality.
00:51He's been playing as an attacking midfielder and in the right wing, and I think he's been
00:56really good in that position. So that's fine.
00:58A chance for Raheem to shine, give him a chance to play week in, week out?
01:03Yeah, and for other players as well, and for Leo probably to play in two or three different
01:08positions. So it's between all of us. We have mentioned that many times, he's adding value
01:13from different players, probably being a little bit different in when we have to be adapting
01:20to the qualities and the strengths of our players and go for it. The spirit is certainly
01:26the same.