[OptaJoe] 24.7% - Arsenal’s possession average (24.7%) was the lowest by a team in a UEFA Champions League final on record (since 2003-04), as well as their lowest in any match under Mikel Arteta where they had 11 men on the pitch throughout. Reactive.

Mikel Arteta
Mikel Arteta Amatriain
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Mikel Arteta Amatriain (Basque: [mikel arteta amatriãĩn]; born 26 March 1982) is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Arsenal. Arteta began his senior club career at Barcelona in 1999, but limited playing time led to a loan move to Paris Saint-Germain in 2001, where he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in his second season. Arteta joined Rangers in 2002 for £6 million and won the league and league cup in his debut season, scoring a 93rd-minute penalty on the final day. After a brief return to his hometown club Real Sociedad, Arteta signed for Everton in 2005 and was named the club's Player of the Season twice. He joined Arsenal in 2011 for £10 million and won two FA Cups before retiring in 2016. Arteta represented Spain through several youth levels but never played for the senior national team. Arteta was appointed as an assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City in 2016. He returned at Arsenal in a managerial capacity in 2019 and won the FA Cup in his debut season. Arteta has since gone onto become Arsenal's seventh-longest serving manager and the second longest-serving current Premier League manager.
Career
- 1982Born
- 1991Joined Antiguoko
- 1997Joined Futbol Club Barcelona
- 1998Joined Spain national under-16 association football team
- 1999Joined FC Barcelona Atlètic
- 1999Joined FC Barcelona C
- 1999Joined Spain national under-18 football team
- 1999Joined Spain national under-17 association football team
- 2000Joined Paris Saint-Germain FC
- 2002Joined Rangers F.C.
- 2002Joined Spain national under-21 association football team
- 2004Joined Real Sociedad
- 2005Joined Everton F.C.
- 2005Joined Everton F.C.
- 2011Joined Arsenal F.C.
Trivia
- •Place of birth: San Sebastián
- •Citizenship: Spain
- •Known as: association football player, association football coach
- •Sport: association football
- •Spouse: Lorena Bernal
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Oliver Glasner: "I want to congratulate Arsenal, Mikel Arteta, his players & staff for winning the title after 22 years. It's a fantastic job he's done. "A special congratulations to Eberechi Eze, he made the right decision to go to Arsenal & not another club."