Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta admits he's delighted knowing his players are buying into their plans.

Arteta was asked what was the most satisfying thing to come from his first weeks in charge.

"Honestly, we feel as staff that the players are willing, are behind us and want to follow us," he replied.

"You try and convince them about what we are trying to do and they are doing everything they can to always try and execute what we are doing, and the energy we have together is good so I am happy.

"We have a long way to go in this process, to develop a lot of things that I want to implement.

"We have to maintain the things we do good and maybe then we have little margins of improvement that we have to aim to achieve.

"The attitude I want the players to play with is to confront the opponent. It does not matter where we play, we have to go there and we have to face them.

"We have to feel that we are ready to go, not just when we have the ball but when we don't have it as well, with the same attitude and aggression."