Arsenal v Olympiakos: Champions League – live

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Mikel Arteta spoke to the media at a pre-match news conference at the Emirates on Tuesday.

“We have the same ambition – to go game by game and try to be better than the opponent, which is very difficult in this competition. We want to win as many games as we can. Tomorrow is going to be a really difficult one. We know how important the home form is going to be to reach the phase we want to.”

Arsenal have over the past couple of seasons become a side with a tendency to get down on themselves, to react badly to misfortune or adversity; that happened to an extent at St James’ as early momentum was lost, but they still had enough to claim the win. Certainly the table looks – and the mood feels – very different now to how it would have done without the late goals in their last two games.

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