Joao: "We need to react" | OneFootball

One question, one answer - and Joao Palhinha said everything that needed to be said after our 4-1 loss against Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday.

After a relatively quiet start, everything changed on 36 minutes when Leandro Trossard opened the scoring. Eberechi Eze followed up five minutes later and made it 3-0 a minute into the second half. Richarlison responded from 40 yards after Joao won possession on 56 minutes but Eze put the issue beyond doubt with his hat-trick goal 20 minutes later.

Speaking to us afterwards, Joao reflected: "It's really difficult to digest this result, but I think the result at the end, I think it's fair - we deserve to lose the game. I think we need to react much better, in my opinion, after the goals that we conceded, and especially when we scored our goal. I think we was probably on the best moment of the game and we should handle this, because if we score for 3-2, in my opinion, it makes all the difference and, to be fair, we had a lot of time after we scored the goal. It's not easy when you come from half-time and concede a goal and when we suffered the 4-1, it killed the game completely. At the end, we need to react. I don't need to say many words here, just to say sorry to our supporters who came here to support us and try to celebrate with us. The only promise I can give is that I will do my best with my team-mates to change what happened to today and give them the victory at home (against Fulham on Saturday) that they deserve. Of course, before then, of course we have another important game in the Champions League against PSG."