Mikel Arteta said we need to take our loss to Fleetwood Town on the chin after exiting the Carabao Cup in the fourth round.

We fought back from a goal down against the League Two side through Viktor Gyokeres but we eventually exited on penalties.

After the game, the boss congratulated Fleetwood and said we need feel the pain of the loss before moving onto our match with Liverpool on Sunday.

He said: "First of all, congratulations to Fleetwood for going into the next round. Obviously, a really sad day for us. There’s nothing to criticise the players for in terms of their attitude, their application, their determination to go and play the game that we had to play, but obviously we conceded that really poor goal to start with and gave them some belief.

"After that, we started to attack, have many chances, and the volume of balls that we had, shots and situations, clear-cut chances that we didn’t put away. If you don’t capitalise at this level, it’s the competition you are in and you are out, there are no margins for error.

"We need to take it now on the chin. We are out of the competition, we’re very sad for all the people as well here who came to watch the game - I wanted to give them the victory. Now we need to recover, and get ready for Anfield."

Almost 1,000 Gunners travelled to the north west for the match, and Mikel thanked them for their support as we start a run of three straight away matches.

He said: "They are always with us. That’s unquestionable, after the game they showed their appreciation to the team, and we’ll try to make them very happy against Liverpool."