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After winning the Community Shield, Mikel Arteta says Arsenal will concentrate on one trophy at a time

Following their Community Shield victory against Manchester City on Sunday, which gave them a strong start to the season, Arsenal will concentrate on one prize at a time, manager Mikel Arteta stated.

“Winning trophies for this football club and making it successful is why we are here,” Arteta told reporters.

When asked whether the victory would put too much pressure on the Premier League season, which begins the following weekend, he said, “I don’t know. I really wanted to get that trophy as soon as I could so that we could go on to the next.

“Just the joy of seeing so many happy and proud people and the connection again doing it for our supporters in Wembley feels very different, and that’s great,” the player remarked.

We are aware that in football, if you win a trophy today, you must practice tomorrow.

Cole Palmer’s goal for City in the 77th minute forced a penalty shootout, which Arsenal’s Leandro Trossard equalized with a deflected goal in the 101st.

This season, English Football League referees are required to follow new rules to prevent time delays caused by goal celebrations, substitutions, or injuries.

Arteta said that he supported the new regulations.

“I think it’s really good to do that because I think it was going too far and now teams are going to have to think twice,” he added.

Now that it will happen every week, we must be ready to play for 100 minutes.

It had been a tight game, according to City manager Pep Guardiola.

“They improved in the last 15 to 20 minutes of the first half. We played much better in the second half,” he told the press.

Of course we would want to win today, but sometimes you just have to accept defeat and give the other team credit.

Guardiola said that his team needed to adjust to lengthy overtime.

“We must concede it. Now, games would last 100 minutes, he assured.

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