Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is eager for his team to boss games.

But Arteta says that Johan Cruyff would need to moderate his Total Football philosophy if he were Arsenal manager today, as he vowed to continue the counter-attack revolution he has instigated at the club and resist football's possession purists.

He does aspire to emulate the Manchester City team he coached last season but is clear that the players he has inherited at Arsenal mean that is a work in progress.

He said: "I want to become more dominant, I want to press even higher than we do. You can see last night how aggressive our team is. I want to have 55 shots on target and concede zero goals every game.

"This is the aim and where we want to get. We're going to evolve and in relation to who we play, and we will adapt things to make it difficult to them and give ourselves the best possible chance.

"But people cannot deny as well the way we try to play, because we score making 40 passes, using the goalkeeper to build up from a goal kick to score some great goals against some of the best opponents in the country. But at the moment we need that mix, we need that adaptability and that unpredictability to attack and defend teams."