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Mikel Arteta: Arsenal need 'support and love' after Champions League exit
By Alex Howell
BBC Sport football news reporter at Allianz Arena
Last updated on1 hour ago1 hour ago.
From the sectionArsenal

Bayern Munich 1-0 Arsenal: Gunners will learn from Champions League exit - Arteta
Mikel Arteta says he must show his Arsenal side "support and love" after Bayern
Munich knocked them out of the Champions League.

Joshua Kimmich's second-half header in Germany gave Bayern a 1-0 win on the night,
and a 3-2 aggregate victory in their quarter-final.

It was a second successive defeat for Arsenal, who lost control of the Premier
League title race last Sunday as Aston Villa beat them 2-0.

"I wish I had the right words to say to the players to make them feel better. What
I am going to do - and all the coaching staff too - is to be close to the players."
Arteta said.

"I feel so grateful to be the coach and to work with them every single day."

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Arsenal were chasing a first Champions League semi-final spot since 2009, with
Arteta accepting his team were inexperienced at this stage of the competition. This
was their first quarter-final appearance since 2010.
"We haven't played this competition for seven years and we haven't been in this
stage for 14 years," he said. "There's a reason for it.

"We want to do everything fast-forward, super-quick, in one season. I think we have

the capacity and the quality to be in the semi-final because the margins are very
small.

"Those margins are coming from something else that maybe we don't have yet. We have
to learn it.

"When you look historically, it took other clubs seven, eight or 10 years to do it.
Today, that's not going to make us feel better that's for sure."

The Gunners, who need City to drop points if they are to win the league for the
first time since 2003-04, return to Premier League action at Wolves on Saturday.

"What I need to do is stand right next to them and give them support and our love
and we have to pick it up because on Saturday we have a big, big game," said
Arteta.

"We are still playing for the Premier League. The Premier League is there and we
really want it. We have to show now that we are capable of turning this around."

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