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Mikel Arteta has faced the media ahead of the Wolves vs Arsenal clash (Picture: PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mikel Arteta has named two Arsenal players who are \u2018constantly targeted\u2019 and has responded to his team being compared to Jurgen Klopp\u2019s Liverpool.<\/p>\n

The Gunners boss has faced the media ahead of their Premier League clash against Wolves at Molineux on Saturday as they aim to get back to winning ways.<\/p>\n

Arsenal crashed out of the Champions League to Bayern Munich on Wednesday and also suffered a blow to their top-flight title hopes after losing to Aston Villa.<\/p>\n

Arteta has provided two key reasons for Arsenal\u2019s drop in performances and was also forced to defend his management of the squad in Friday\u2019s press conference.<\/p>\n

But that was not all the Spaniard had to say as he was quizzed about two specific stars and asked about his side being likened to fellow title challengers Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Arteta vows to \u2018help\u2019 Arsenal duo<\/h2>\n
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Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard are \u2018constantly targeted\u2019 (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mikel Arteta spoke about adapting key pair Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard, who he feels are being \u2018targeted\u2019 by rival teams.<\/p>\n

\u2018They are constantly targeted like all the best players, like any other opponent,\u2019 Arteta said.<\/p>\n

\u2018We always try to find ways to prepare the games to try to help them. <\/p>\n

\u2018If they try to do certain things to stop us, to find other ways, spaces, combinations, this is a journey because there\u2019s always something that they try and you have to adapt it and make it work.\u2019<\/p>\n

Arsenal on similar journey to Liverpool?<\/h2>\n
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Liverpool and Arsenal both have 71 points from their 32 top-flight games (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quizzed if Arsenal were on a similar journey to Jurgen Klopp\u2019s Liverpool, Arteta said: \u2018Well, you know that the better you become and the closer you are to fighting with the best teams that this league have ever had, not now, but in the history of the Premier League,\u00a0you know what the margins are. <\/p>\n

\u2018And we\u2019ve been at the top for many, many months in the 24 months, there is only one way or two that you can, you stay there or you go down. <\/p>\n

\u2018There\u2019s only one winner, so if you want to be in that mix, you have to cope with any situation that comes attached to that, because not everything is a disappointment, but if you want to not be in the Champions League for seven years, to fight for the league two years in a row, tell me a team that has done that?\u2019<\/p>\n

Arteta explains Arsenal\u2019s huge blip<\/h2>\n
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