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"Rayan is an exceptional player. He is so young , proved his personality at Fulham and in the final third he has something special. What I admire with Rayan is not the skills. I never saw Messi play this cross and he is the best player. If it's effective, it's fine. I learn from Messi that I never make a mistake with the simple things. He does perfectly. After that, if you have special talent you can do whatever you want but if he doesn’t work then we have a problem."

"Of course it's better to be closer than further to the top of the league. I’ve won [many] Premier League titles in my experience, it’s the consistency. The consistency comes from the way you play and how much you grow. 

"Today maybe has been one of the best performances of the season. We start from Wolves, first half was really good, the second half we suffer. We did good things v Fulham in the first half and stop in the second half. 

"We talk about that and it’s not about specific movements. We concede one chance today but apart from that it was a good performance and the PL had the feeling that Arsenal are going to drop few points and if you want to be there you have to win games and that comes from way you perform not just lucky day or action."

The boss is here...

A happy camp this evening - and why not?

Still waiting for the boss to appear...

Rayan speaking with Match of the Day,...

"Really proud. We worked many weeks for that, we played very well. Defend and attack really well. Very proud.

"I worked for that, I know my quality, my quality is my technique, when I play with Phil [Foden], Erling [Haaland], Omar [Marmoush], it's very important to give the good balls for them.

"Phil is a great player, he works for the team, runs for the team."

Importance of first goal: "It's difficult when the team come to defend with 10 players in the box, it's complicated. For Ruben [Dias] it's a first time and a last because the goal was unbelievable.

"We want to win all the games. We don't want to concede goals. Important for us to defend well because then we attack better. We are very proud to give the pleasure to the fans. We will work all week for the next game.

"Very excited for the end of the championship. We are ready."

The perfect way to go into our midweek Champions League clash with Real Madrid. No reported injuries, some legs rested towards the end and a third win on the bounce - and that clean sheet! Bring on Los Blancos!

Classy Nico O'Reilly - and yes, we did have Nico, Rico and Nico on the pitch at the same time, today....