Arsenal hungrier for victory than anyone can imagine – Arteta

Despite heading into the game against Chelsea on the back of two defeats, Mikel Arteta is boosted by the mood in the camp and believes he and his players are hungrier for a victory than anyone can imagine.

Arsenal arrives at Stamford Bridge on Sunday looking to return to winning ways after a difficult few weeks that have seen the Gunners claim just a point from the last three league outings and lose to Inter Milan on Wednesday.

When pressed about the current state of the squad in his pre-match press conference, Mikel said: “When you don’t win it affects the mood and energy but the positive thing is that it is impossible that anyone in this room or outside wants to win more than I do, and these guys in the dressing room want to do.

“Today I had a meeting with them and sensed it straight away. What I sense as well is a big belief about how good we are as a team. But you need to take that into a winning football match because, in the end, that is the only thing that anybody is going to judge, not how superior you were to the opponent, that you outrun the opponent, you out-performed the opponent in every single way. It is about how they scored a goal and you didn’t. We have a problem, and that problem has to be resolved by scoring more goals than the opponent.

“That’s the joy of this team. You go in there this morning thinking: ‘how are they going to feel after that and what will we talk about?’ and they are there paying attention. They are hungry, they want to do more, whatever we can do and it’s unbelievable. The desire we have, the togetherness, it’s just a joy to work with them.”