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Arteta 'very happy' as Arsenal win at Sevilla

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta was delighted with victory at Champions League opponents Sevilla.

Gabriel Jesus scored one and created the other Gabriel Martinelli as Arsenal won 2-1 in Spain. Nemanja Gudelj's header offered the hosts hope, but Arsenal held on.

Arteta later said: "I'm very happy to win here. There are not many teams have won here in the last ten years in Europe and we've done it.

"I really liked the team, especially the first 60,65 minutes because we played the game we wanted. After we went two-nil up we should have scored a third one and we had openings to score it and we didn't.

"In one corner, the first action where they had something they scored and from there, they have experience, they have a lot of people and a lot of belief they can get in the game.

"You need magic moments in these games and you need the big players to step in and create those moments.

"It's about experiences and learning from those experiences and when you lose you learn much more than when you win. It was a very different team that we were playing against Lens, we had moments where we were dominant."

On Gabriel Jesus being forced to come off: "He felt something in his hamstring so let's see. He straight away asked to be subbed which is not good news because he's not a player that does that at all so we'll have to wait and see in the next few days."

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