Head coach of London Arsenal Mikel Arteta at a press conference on the eve of the match with Liverpool in the championship of England in a joking way responded to the question of whether the two players of his team - Alexander Zinchenko and Ben White, who quarrelled immediately after the end of the previous game "canoniers", with Nottingham Forest (2:1), have made up.
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"Zinchenko and White these days lived in the same house, shared wives and everything! Now they live together, they are more than just mates," the Arsenal mentor said with a laugh in response to such a question from a journalist.
"And seriously, I will answer regarding this situation as follows. I think you don't argue with someone if you don't have a good relationship with that person. Such heated arguments happen because you have mutual trust and chemistry with someone - you react equally emotionally to some things and don't hide it.
That's why after the match with Nottingham Forest I said that I like such moments as the one with Zinchenko and White. As long as it happens with mutual respect and with the desire to become more demanding as a team, I am very happy with it.
And then, we may have a different understanding of the word "clash". It is quite possible that what happened can be called a conversation. Yes, it was a little heated and a little emotional conversation, but that can happen after a game in which you make 200 shots on the ball per minute. That's normal. It's nothing new," Arteta added.