Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has warned that his team are out for revenge in the coming games.
The Gunners have dropped four points in their past two matches, drawing with Liverpool and West Ham United.
These results have allowed Manchester City back into the title race, while the two teams meet on Wednesday next week.
Gunners boss Arteta said: I see a sense of revenge and determination to get it even better and that it's not enough and you have to tweak it and demand more and more of each other.
You can tell from the way they talked, the way they communicated in the meetings we had. The discussions to understand how we move forward after that.
It was all the right answers they were very clear on what we want, how we're going to do it and why it's taken us all the way here. That's what we have to continue.
We have to be perfectionists but at the same time we have to play with that flow. We are really good when we play with that energy and flow and don't be thinking about the results. That's the last thing that we have to do.
Twists and turns are part of everything that you do especially in football. It's not always going to be a linear progression. You have to know that and you have to be prepared for that.
But the way the team reacted was incredibly positive and we want to see that against Southampton [at the weekend] when we get onto that field."