Mikel Arteta has insisted Arsenal are the 'most honest' membership within the Premier League, regardless of their debatable winner towards Watford on Sunday.
Hornets supervisor Claudio Ranieri changed into left fuming after his side's 1-zero defeat, in which Emile Smith Rowe scored the game's handiest aim.
Just earlier than the strike Danny Rose positioned the ball out of play so his teammate, Ozan Tufan, should obtain treatment. However, rather than giving the ball back to their visitors, Arsenal opted to play on with the intention coming no longer lengthy after.
Following the game, Ranieri and Arteta exchanged phrases and the Italian accused the Gunners of 'disrespect' in his post-match interview.
The Arsenal boss did now not agree, giving his facet of the tale all through his very own after-sport media duties.
"I need to shield my players, my group and my club. I could say we are the maximum honest of they all," Arteta said.
"At a few degrees we are able to even come to be naive, but if he feels that way closer to us our club and our group I need to apologise if that's the case. But for sure there was no goal to take any advantage."
Pushed to speak about the problem further, Arteta said: "I'm targeted at the performance. I need to speak approximately what we did and we deserved absolutely to win the sport."
Prior to the talk, Arsenal had a Bukayo Saka strike dominated out for offside and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang additionally had a penalty stored.
The victory was the Gunners' third in a row, lifting them to fifth in the Premier League desk. It is pretty the turnaround after Arsenal's bad start - they lost their first three games - but Arteta insisted that he was always confident that his aspect would come exact.
