"It can come down to fine margins in terms of taking the game into your control or not and it's not down to bad luck, it's down to mistakes. They made the most of our mistakes. They took their chances and all their big chances turned into goals. We could have scored with Julian Alvarez in the first half, he hit the bar in the second half, we competed well as a team but this is a lesson we can learn."
"You have to be clinical in different phases of the game. It's individual mistakes that affect the team, it's losing your man in a set-piece, for the third goal we were too meek and ended up conceding a goal from that. These are small details that can turn the game in one team's favour..."
Arsenal scored four times within 13 minutes 51 seconds, with Gabriel Magalhaes opening in the 57th minute, Gabriel Martinelli adding a neat finish and Viktor Gyokeres completing a quickfire double to make it 4-0. Two goals came from set pieces and one deflected off David Hancko. The loss equalled Atletico Madrid's joint-heaviest Champions League defeat and was their fifth four-goal loss, first since a 0-4 reverse at Benfica in October 2024. Atletico have lost 10 of their last 16 away Champions League games and five of their last six matches in England. Defensive errors, failure to pick up markers at set-pieces and missed chances, including Julian Alvarez hitting the bar, contributed to the heavy defeat.
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