Not even Mikel Arteta will be able to shield some Arsenal players from the shame of a first pair of consecutive defeats of the season. Mikel Arteta was not wrong. The Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City, from an Arsenal perspective, is “part of who you’re going to be in the next few weeks, in the next few months, in the next few years”. But not in the way he hoped. Not in a ... [3762 chars]