‘not Up To Our Usual Standards’: Bukayo Saka Sees Room For Improvement From Arsenal

Bukayo Saka has said Arsenal will beryllium punished if they repetition nan “sloppiness and bad decisions” they displayed successful Sunday’s 1-0 victory complete Manchester United astatine Old Trafford.

Arsenal claimed each 3 points done Riccardo Calafiori’s 13th-minute header aft nan United goalkeeper, Altay Bayindir, palmed nan shot connected to nan left-back’s caput from a Declan Rice corner. Overall, nan visitors were ineffective, managing only 9 shots to United’s 22. United besides dominated possession, pinch a 61.9% share.

“It was not a awesome performance,” Saka said. “We were not up to our accustomed standards, nan basics, sloppy giveaways. Our decision-making was not awesome and that costs america and gave United a batch of momentum. We did not get punished for it, but we tin not do it each game.”

Viktor Gyökeres had a muted Premier League debut aft his £65m presence from Sporting past month and was replaced aft 60 minutes. Saka has backed nan Sweden striker to travel good. “I was impressed pinch him and he battled for us,” said nan winger. “His capacity gives america thing to build connected and I americium judge it will thief him adjacent week. He has slotted successful good and truthful person nan different guys.”

Keeper David Raya echoed Saka’s analysis. “[It’s] a difficult spot to travel and get nan 3 points and a cleanable sheet,” he told arsenal.com. “But we cognize it wasn’t bully capable pinch nan shot and we made a batch of mistakes, truthful there’s a batch of things to improve.”

“We cognize coming to this spot really important it is to beryllium alert. [It’s] nan willingness [that’s important], nan fight, nan tone that we person altogether, wherever things are not going our measurement and we make mistakes, everybody’s sprinting backmost and trying to thief nan teammate that’s made a correction to retrieve nan shot and to do nan correct thing.

“We did that and we dug heavy very, very well, particularly nan past 10-15 minutes wherever they threw everything to america and we defended very well”