Arsenal defender Ignasi Miquel admits it was a big test for him against Manchester City this week.

The young defender made his fourth appearance of the season in the 1-0 Carling Cup defeat.

"I played left-back again and I'm not used to that," Miquel told Arsenal.com. "I have been injured for the last two weeks and so my fitness wasn't quite what it could have been either. It was quite a hard game.

"But if you get the chance to play for the first team you don't care where you play. I know this is a hard position for me to move from centre-back to left-back but if I get the chance I really don't mind.

"I think there were some good things and some bad things in my performance overall. It was alright I think but obviously I wasn't happy with the result in the end."