Arsenal boss Mikel Areteta asked his players to launch themselves after they have returned by 13 points with a 0-0 draw in Nottingham Forest.
Before the start, Areta said that his team would enter the title “About my body”, but she saw that they would not score a goal for the second time in four days.
The toothless Gunner, who played without recognized strikers, only made one shot on the City Ground, with Riccardo Calafiori also hit the post in the first half.
Areta said: “We are very disappointed not to win it. Today the standards were very different from the previous game. The energy, the willingness to make things happen. We definitely tried many different ways.
“It’s about what we can do. It was a week earlier, two weeks earlier, three months ago. It is the same.
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“This is the only thing we can control. We will have a real chance to do something. Today we dropped two points, which is very painful again and we have to ascend.
“We have the Champions League, we have a nice competition in front of us and have to be ready for Tuesday.”
Arsenal plays in the last 16 of the Champions League PSV Eindhoven and will be again without striker Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz.
“We try to adapt to the properties of how we can help the team to create different things, to have threats from different properties,” said Arteta.
“There is a lot to play and we have to find a solution to unlock it.”
Forest Boss Nuno Espirito Santo said the result was “again as a team”.
“The most important thing was to see how we do things, how we play and our strengths. It was there today, ”he said.
“We were compact and did not allow arsenal too much. Arsenal naturally had chances because they are a very good team. At the same time, we were compact, firm and aggressive.
“Maybe we could have found better transition points, but it is always difficult. The positive is the clean leaf and especially when we are again as a team with the way we do things.
“In the last moments of the game, we were the team that received the set pieces and the dangerous swing. That is also positive. “
