""Sometimes the finishers will be more important than the starters this season," Arteta told reporters. "And in the end, the finishers made the impact to win the game. "They [substitutes] are at least equally important, and maybe more important, in that stage of games. "It's always very difficult emotionally to leave players out. I know how much they want to play in this competition and what it means to them.""
""And every time you give the lineup, you're disappointing a lot of players. "They know how I feel about them, so they know that when I have to leave a player on the bench or out of the squad, it hurts me. "But the only thing I can do is my job. I have to make decisions and I have to make decisions based on increasing the priority of winning football matches. "And they know that that's the only reason why I'm going to make certain decisions sometimes right, sometimes wrong.""
Arsenal defeated Athletic Club 2-0 in Bilbao in the Champions League, with both goals scored by substitutes. Gabriel Martinelli scored 36 seconds after entering on the 71st minute, the move created by Leandro Trossard, who had come on six minutes earlier. Trossard then combined with Martinelli to score on the 87th minute and seal the victory. The club emphasized that substitutes can be at least equally important, sometimes more so, than starters, and acknowledged the emotional difficulty of leaving players out while prioritizing decisions that increase the chances of winning matches. No concerns were reported about head injuries to Viktor Gyökeres and Gabriel Magalhães.
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