Arteta’s manual against pressure

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal it is before it is or is not. Leader of the Premier with more 4 points than Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City (reigning champions, with a game in hand and rivals Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals), have seven finals ahead of them to try to become English champions for the first time since 2003-04. The first of them, this Friday, against bottom team Southampton. The second against City itself on April 26 at the Etihad Stadium.

This is a big challenge for Arteta help your players fight the tension they have at the end of the season, to increase their mental strength. To resist the pressure.

As reported by the Telegraph, the Arsenal has no ‘official’ club psychologist. it is own Arteta the one who deals mentally with his players, the one who talks to each of them, as well as some of his assistants, Steve Round, Albert Stuivenberg and Carlos Cuesta. They all try to support their players, help them in terms of mental strength. Besides, in specific cases, the Arsenal He has several mentors. In addition, Arteta reads books that will help him become a better coach and talks to coaches from other sports, including eddy jones (Australian rugby coach).

roundone of the assistants Artetahas worked as a ‘coaching’ player since before he was born Bukayo Saka. In fact, at 52 years old, it is the work of round for more than three decades and has been working with Saka since 2022 on the sanctions issue. The young ‘gunner’ star was one of England’s players who missed out on the final round of Euro 2020 (played in 2021 as a result of the pandemic) against Italy, champions. A year ago, two individual defeats against Tottenham and Newcastle They left Arsenal without a place in the Champions League.

A year ago, on Friday Then and Round they began to work together on punishments, to decide how the young ‘gunner’ would take them, and the next day moreover transformed it perfectly in front of him Manchester Utd . On the other hand, last Sunday moreover he missed his throw before the West Ham. Then moreover He apologized to the fans.

Always according to the Telegraph, Professor Andy Lanepsychologist who specializes in sports at the Center for Health and Human Behavior and at Wolverhampton University, he believes the key for Arsenal’s players now is to “live in the moment, thinking that they are close to the end of the season will create anxiety, they just have to focus on playing football, enjoying doing it.”