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Nuno Tavares was not pleased with Mikel Arteta’s choice (Image: ITV/Getty)

Mikel Arteta says his choice to hook Nuno Tavares after half an hour of their defeat towards Nottingham Forest was merely to enhance the staff.

Arsenal suffered an embarrassing 1-0 defeat to Forest within the third spherical of the FA Cup as Lewis Grabban got here off the bench to attain late on for the house facet.

The Gunners have been removed from the very best however Tavares had a very troublesome afternoon and was substituted after simply 34 minutes for Kieran Tierney.

The 21-year-old was clearly not completely satisfied as he stormed previous his supervisor and threw his gloves to the ground in frustration.

Unsurprisingly, Arteta was requested in regards to the choice post-match however stood by his brutal actions regardless of the upcoming fallout that was to return.

‘I simply did it to attempt to enhance the efficiency of the staff,’ stated the Spaniard.

When requested if he’d thought-about the story the substitution would create, Arteta replied: ‘I perceive that however I've to make the choice to attempt to enhance the efficiency of the staff when it’s not entering into another path.’

Lewis Grabban
Lewis Grabban’s objective was sufficient to dump Arsenal out of the FA Cup (Image: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Photographs)

And when pushed additional on what Tavares did to be hauled off, he stated: ‘I don’t need to discuss any people.’

Arsenal now flip their consideration to their solely different likelihood of silverware this yr after they tackle Liverpool within the first leg of their EFL Cup semi-final towards Liverpool on Thursday.

Arteta shall be anticipating far more from his facet than the best way they carried out this night and admitted his staff wanted to apologise to the followers for his or her poor show.

‘They gained, they scored a objective and we didn’t,’ Arteta stated. ‘We weren't adequate and we now have to apologise for it.

‘I don’t need to use excuses, I anticipate the staff I put out to do higher and whenever you don’t within the cup you're out.

‘At present confirmed we weren't able to successful towards Forest away from residence and didn’t put within the degree to win the sport. It’s a collective subject and at this time we now have not accomplished it.’

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