Arsenal boss, Mikel Arteta, told his players to “go up” after falling 13 points behind Liverpool, the leaders of the Premier League with a 0-0 draw in Nottingham Forest.
Arteta said before kick -off that her team was going to concede the title “on my corpse”, but had seen them not mark for the second time in four days.
The swords, playing without a recognized attacker, only succeeded on the target at City Ground, Riccardo Calafiori also struck the post in the first half.
Arteta said: “We are very disappointed not to win it. Today, the standards were very different from the previous game. Energy, the desire to make things happen. We have certainly tried in many different ways.
“This is what we can do. It was like that a week ago, two weeks ago, three months ago. It’s the same thing.
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“This is the only thing we can control. We are going to have a real chance of doing anything. Today, we have dropped two points, which is again very painful and we have to intensify.
“We have the Champions League, we have a great competition in front of us and we have to be ready for Tuesday.”
Arsenal plays PSV Eindhoven in the last 16 of the Champions League and will again be without an attacker Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz.
“We are trying to adapt to the qualities they have, how we can help the team create different things, threaten different qualities,” said Arteta.
“It’s a lot to play and we have to find a solution to unlock it.”
The forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo said that the result meant that they “found themselves again as a team”.
“The most important thing was to do how we do things, how we play and our strengths. Today was there, “he said.
“We were compact and did not allow too much arsenal. Arsenal was likely, of course, because they are a very good team. But at the same time, we were compact, solid and aggressive.
“Maybe we could have found better transition points, but it’s always difficult. The positive is the white sheet and, more than anything, find yourself as a team again with the way we do things.
“In the last moments of the match, we were the team who had the sets and the dangerous momentum. It is also positive.
