Shortly after touching down in the Portuguese capital Lisbon on Monday evening, Mikel Arteta met the media ahead of our Champions League quarter-final first leg clash with Sporting CP. 

The boss was asked about bouncing back from defeat, the state of his squad, Viktor Gyokeres facing his former team, and much more. 

Here's a full transcript from the press conference...

On what he’s seen from the side since Saturday…
Have some perspective, how difficult it is, what we've done up to now. And then feel that pain, feel that emotion, and use it to be better and to improve. So we were very clear in what happened, the reason why it happened, watching the game two times, we didn't deserve to lose that match, but this is football and we get punished for things that are related to our identity, and that's the things that we need to defend in the strongest possible way, because that's the reason that we are where we are today.

On whether it changes the importance of Tuesday’s game…
I think it doesn't change it, I mean, regardless this is the quarter-finals of the Champions League, it doesn't get much better than that, and we...