Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has taken responsibility for their midweek Carabao Cup defeat.
The Gunners have been bounced out of the competition in the fourth round by West Ham United.
After a rotated side were beaten at the Hammers, Arteta outlined to reporters: I'm very disappointed. Obviously I'm responsible for that, we are out of the cup and we wanted to play a very different game, and especially we wanted to compete in a game like this, which we discussed for 48 hours, in a very different way to what we've done."
He added on bringing on the senior starters near the end: There are no messages to send. Whatever messages we send, we send them with words, we don't have to send them in a different way. We have tried to put out the team that we believed was the best to try to compete today in the right way to start the game, and the game took a different direction obviously because of the first goal and we can discuss that, but after that we still have to see much more from the team to earn the right to win in a place like this."
He then finished on Emile Smith Rowe being injured again: He's got an injury in his knee and he's going to be out for weeks."
