Miquel made to work in loss

Arsenal defender Ignasi Miquel admitted he felt uncomfortable at left-back in Tuesday’s 1-0 League Cup defeat to Manchester City.

The youngster was asked by boss Arsene Wenger to move out of his preferred centre-back position following injuries to Carl Jenkinson and Bacary Sagna.

Miquel told the club’s official website: “I played left-back again and I’m not used to that. I have been injured for the last two weeks and so my fitness wasn’t quite what it could have been either. It was quite a hard game.”

“But if you get the chance to play for the first team you don’t care where you play. I know this is a hard position for me to move from centre-back to left-back but if I get the chance I really don’t mind.”

“I think there were some good things and some bad things in my performance overall. It was alright I think but obviously I wasn’t happy with the result in the end.”

The 19-year-old said he was happy to see fellow youngsters Emmanuel Frimpong and Francis Coquelin starting in the midfield against City, and he hopes to emulate his team-mates and get into the first team on a regular basis.

“They’ve been around with me for maybe three or four years now,” he said.

“I’m so happy to see them getting games now and obviously for my next step I will try to be like them and get in there myself.”

“I’m really happy for them and that I can be here too. I think the main thing now is to work hard. You learn from your mistakes. I don’t think I can do much more.”

“If I work and try to see what I’ve done wrong then I can only improve. It’s the only way to grow.”