Gus Poyet: “My emotions are running high after watching the game, I’m trying to not to make any decisions so soon after it.
“It could be that we were second best, or it could be that on the day there were things that we simply weren’t good enough at - I think it’s a mixture of the two.
“Arsenal were very good on the ball and we couldn’t cope with them.
“We had a very bad day on the ball; we were very poor and we paid the price.
“Maybe it’s a good time for it to happen, a week before the cup final; some people say if you have a good result before the game it can make you too confident and others say if you have a bad one it’s a wake-up call.
“It was a bad day at the office. We weren’t good enough against a very good team, maybe it was nerves or something but it’s definitely given us something to think about.
“The players that came on deserve credit.
“They came on when we were 3-0 down away from home, I bet they were thinking ‘thanks for that, gaffer’, but they did their jobs and then it was a great finish from Giaccherini for our goal.
“I had an idea about how I wanted to play next week and which players I wanted to use - today’s game has put a few doubts in my mind.
“It’s an important week for us now; the players are going to have to work very hard to get into the team.”