Liverpool and Anfield have been a rather personal and emotional affair for Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and the Amazon Prime Original’s ‘All or Nothing: Arsenal’ shows that on full display. The emotion came to a head when his team faced the Reds in the 2021-22 season. While the Gunners lost 4-0 in that game, there was plenty of drama on the sidelines with both managers of their incoming teams.
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The series captures Arsenal’s roller coaster season in the Premier League and among the many moments, it was the row between Jurgen Klopp and Arteta during the game that generated all the buzz. In the end, everything was settled, but the outcome of the match left the Spaniard stung and he made his feelings quite clear in the dressing room. The game was billed as a high-octane matchup and was more personal for Arteta, but the win didn’t have to be.
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Why did Mikel Arteta and Jurgen Klopp fight?
The verbal dust came after Liverpool’s Sadio Mane and Arsenal’s Takehiro Tomiyasu argued over a header, with Arteta calling for the Reds star to be booked. It didn’t sit too well with Klopp who reacted to the complaints and what followed was a real argy-bargy which saw the support staff of both teams split the managers off before they came to blows. . The Liverpool manager has received a yellow card for his altercation with Arteta.
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Speaking to the BBC, he shed light on the incident. “That wasn’t the plan – the situation was Sadio going for a clean header challenge, no one makes a mistake and they get up and to me it’s a bit too obvious there was nothing” , did he declare. “He’s just a physical player – you can’t do that, it happens too often and it’s not right. When they get off the bench it’s hard not to get up and say something.”
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He also added: “It was about the situation that it was no fault of Sadio [Mane] but the Arsenal bench went up like it was a red card. I asked what they wanted in this situation. For his part, Arteta said the duo had a post-match discussion. “He was defending his team, I was defending my team, that’s all. It doesn’t matter,” he said. “Yes I did it [speak to Jurgen Klopp after the match] and I congratulated him. These moments are left in the field. I think the vibe was amazing right from the start. That was it.”
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Episodes 1-3 of “All or Nothing: Arsenal” are available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.