Lee Johnson has revealed that neither Ron-Thorben Hoffmann or Frederik Alves' absences were due to Covid, with the defender missing because of an "attitude error"...
KEEPERS
It was a tough one. I had a three-man decision to make, and I went with Burgey because he got us through [at QPR]. Burgey and Hoffmann are two number ones really, it's not fair to call one of them a number two, while Patto might go back out on loan, so you have to give the other competing number one a chance and a focus so that they train properly - especially when he was as good as he was in the previous game at QPR. I thought he did well tonight."
ALVES
"With Frederik, it was an attitude error that knocked him out of the squad. A lack of discipline in training."
ARSENAL
"We will show them where they have come up short but we'll also show them where they have implemented the philosophy. It's the yin-yang, and we always try to weight it 85 percent positive and 15 percent things to improve on."
FOCUS
"I think that's the right way to deal with it because what we can't be doing is digging them out for every mistake, particularly every mistake against world-class players when you play at this type of level. What we can use it as is as a reference point moving forward for those guys and demand the maximum, really laser-like focus."
PSYCHOLOGY
"We talked about the mind being the athlete and the body being the means, because the mental side of the game and the psychology is so important, but now we have a reference point to really hone in on those standards."
