Joe Willock admits there was a lot of anger in training ahead of Arsenal's victory over Southampton yesterday.

The midfielder struck as the Gunners grabbed their first win of the season restart.

"I enjoyed how much we showed that we're a team, we had two defeats but we had to stick together and fight," he told Arsenal.com. "They had a good spell in the second half for about 20 or 30 minutes and we stayed together as a team and we have to believe in each other and that's what I enjoyed about the performance.

"There was a bit of edge in training, people were a bit angry, we had to test each other, we had to push each other to the limit and try to come out and show it in the game today. I feel like we defended well together and got a clean sheet and scored two goals.

"The edge in training is a good thing. We said that we need to compete after the Brighton game, we need to compete as a team together and that's what we tried to do today. We tried to bring it to the pitch, there's still a long way to go but I feel like the groundroots level that we need to play at first of all if we want to compete."