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REUTERS: Liverpool are the best team the Premier League has seen in years, but their success didn’t come overnight and Arsenal have a lot of work to do to meet those standards, coach Mikel Arteta said after their loss 3-1 against Juergen Klopp’s team.
Klopp took over at Anfield for the 2015-16 season and has steadily improved the team, handing over the Champions League in 2018-19 followed by the long-awaited English league title last season.
Arteta has enjoyed some success since his appointment last season with Arsenal winning the FA Cup, but Monday’s defeat showed the class gap between the two sides.
“We’re on a different trip to Liverpool. They’ve been together for five years and they couldn’t do what they did tonight two or three years ago, that’s for sure,” he said.
“They have a great job, a lot of confidence in the way they play, a great recruiting and have improved the players they have. This is what we have to try to do.
“They set the bar and are probably the best standard the Premier League has seen in many years. This is where we need to go and obviously we are still a long way from getting there.
Arsenal and Liverpool will meet for the second time in a week in the League Cup on Thursday.
(Reporting by Arvind Sriram in Bengaluru; Edited by Peter Rutherford)
