Mikel Arteta was delighted to get “another trophy under the belt” and remains confident that star turn Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will sign a new deal after wrapping up Arsenal’s Community Shield victory against Liverpool.
August started with the Gunners beating Chelsea to win a record 14th FA Cup and ended with a penalty shoot-out victory against Jurgen Klopp’s Premier League champions.
Aubameyang ended a fine team move with a superb curling strike to open the scoring at an empty Wembley, before Liverpool substitute Takumi Minamino levelled in the second half.
He said: “When you play against a formation like this then you need to be really fresh in the final third and you need to force it, create angles. The rhythm for that fell a little bit. Today it was not enough.
“We created enough, had the ball quite a lot, but had to be careful of their counter-attack, deserved the equaliser, could have scored more, but when you don’t (score) you have to take it.
“A penalty shoot-out is always a little bit of a lottery and we were unlucky there, so congratulations to Arsenal, that is how it is. We respect the competition.”
