Arsenal captain not optimistic ahead of Chelsea clash

After their 1-2 defeat to , Arsenal captain Mikel Arteta is pessimistic about their chances against Chelsea in the league this weekend.

Arsene Wenger's men travel to Stamford Bridge where they lost 0-2 last season and Arteta admits Arsenal's shock defeat in Zagreb could damage their chances of victory at Chelsea.

"We have to recover the best we can and start to prepare for the game because we only have 48 hours," Arteta said.

"Tomorrow is a new day, a time to be positive and take good things into the next game because we can beat Chelsea."

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Arteta was one of the six changes Wenger made ahead of the game against Zagreb but the Spanish midfielder insisted that the changes were not the reason for their lost.

"We had a strong team out there to win the game and we created enough chances to at least not lose, even with 10 men," he said.

"We have so many games coming up and the schedule is tight the manager decided to make a couple of changes.

"He has to manage the squad with the number of games we have in the next couple of weeks. The team was good enough to beat Dinamo Zagreb. We're disappointed.

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"We could have been two or three nil up in the first 20 minutes. And we conceded a goal with the first chance they had. We were very unlucky. Obviously with 10 men the game is difficult and different.

"It looked harsh on the pitch. I haven't seen it again to judge it. I don't know, but it was a fact that he was sent off and we had to react to that.

"We tried our best but we couldn't get back in the game. At 1-0 we always had a chance but we were a bit sloppy to concede from a set-piece."

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