Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta lavished praise on Europa League opponents Bodo/Glimt.
The Gunners had to work extremely hard to get all three points away from home on Thursday in the group stages.
A first-half Bukayo Saka goal was enough to get them a win, with Arteta praising Bodo/Glimt's hard work post-match.
He told reporters: “Really tough, I said before we played at the Emirates this is a really good team that is going to cause you problems, especially the moment you start to lose certain duels and allowed, especially the left-back to progress the play so easily and go through your press too easily, and once we haven't controlled that, we were in big trouble, and that was probably the difference between the first and the second half. Obviously, the conditions, the pitch, is another element that you could see sometimes that it was too fast for us but there is no excuse."
He added: “The second half obviously there are a lot of things to improve, we know that, I'm not going to get too deep into that, I understand as well, why this is happening.
“But I think the boys deserve credit as well for the way they tried. Quality-wise, in terms of dominance and how we want to play, obviously there are a lot of things to get better than what we done today, but it's another win, move on, now it's Leeds."