“I’m really happy to win the game,” Arteta expresses delight as Arsenal conquer stubborn Ipswich Town

Kai Havertz scored the only goal as Arsenal beat a resilient Ipswich Town to move up to second in the Premier League.

The Gunners claimed a 23rd-minute winner after Kai Havertz tapped in from close range.

Arsenal dominated and had 83.5% possession in the opening period as Kieran McKenna’s side, who hardly left their half.

Speaking after the game, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta applauded the team for claiming the three points available in the match with a clean sheet.

“I’m very happy with the victory, with the clean sheet, and with big parts of the game. It’s a really difficult opposition. We’re playing so many games. You see that teams are winning for very small margins. Today we could have done the margins much bigger. At the end we didn’t. But we held our nerves in the last few minutes, you know, to defend well in the areas that we had to do, and I’m very, very happy.

On whether the team should have scored more, he said, “More, more. And today we had some big openings as well in the second half when we were a little bit more stretched, they were a little bit more aggressive.

“The big header of Gabi as well, one yard. So we should have scored more, but, it’s the consistency. The team conceded nothing, again. Their defensive behaviour was, again, outstanding. So that’s something that’s always going to give us always the chance to win games.”