It was a disappointing day in Borehamwood for Jonas Eidevall’s Gunners, as Arsenal’s 0-1 defeat to Manchester City resulted in their premature exit from the Adobe Women’s FA Cup. As eight Barclays Women’s Super League sides progress through to the quarterfinal stages of the competition, the Gunners are left shaking their heads at what is perhaps a scene of another piece of silverware falling from reach.

Speaking to the media in his post match press conference following the fixture, Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall reflected on how he perceived Arsenal’s performance down on the park.

“Lot of the decisions in how we made the team was to be good around the ball, and play out of the really intense pressure that Manchester City give- I thought we did that well during the game.

I think we lacked the final pass in the first half, in order to create more goalscoring opportunities from that. In the second half I think we create more of course, I thought we were on the wrong side of the margin.”

The dying moments of the fixture saw a stellar display from Manchester City keeper, Khiara Keating. Saving a knuckle ball strike from the foot of Kim Little in the closing minutes of the game, Keating provided her side the ability to hold the advantage at Meadow Park.

Despite this, just moments later there were pleads from the Arsenal outfit in protest of whether the ball crossed the goal line off the back of a curling corner from Beth Mead. The controversial decision to see play continue was brought forward to Eidevall in his post match interview, as he expressed his disappointment in regards to the referee’s decision.

“Right now I’m very disappointed with it, because with the margins in the end. If that ball is over the line or not, if that’s a penalty or not- those are difficult decisions to deal with right now.”

Arsenal have now admitted defeat in two consecutive fixtures, both to West Ham United last weekend, and in yesterday’s clash with the Cityzens. As well as their exit from the Adobe Women’s FA Cup, the fall to the Irons sees Eidevall’s side in a precarious position within the league’s title race- now six points from the summit.

Speaking in regards to how his side will search to bounce back, Eidevall expressed that “Our job here now is to control what we can control, and we have two really important games on this side of the international block.”

“We need to keep our focus in the right place and that’s hard to do that, but that’s what we are here for, that’s what I’m here for. I can’t allow myself to breathe, or to stay in that moment for very long. I need to look forward and need to see what we were doing well today, and take that forward, and of course need to see what we can improve.”

Eidevall reflected on the back-to-back losses with further disappointment, though the Arsenal boss was clear on his stance that the Gunners will not lose focus come the rest of the campaign.

“From a results perspective we are unhappy with it. I don’t think we deserve to lose any of these two games if you remove the emotions, remove Arsenal glasses from it and just look at purely the performance. It’s tough, it puts us in a really tough situation in order to achieve what we want to achieve. But, we need to put our focus on to what we can control, and that’s what we need to manage here.”

“We’re Arsenal, we want to compete in every competition we do. That’s the ambition, otherwise we shouldn’t be here in this club. We want to win both competitions that we’re still in, that’s how ambitious we need to be. We need to understand that it’s a lot of hard work for that, and its not entirely in our own control either. But what we can control, we need to put one hundred percent in to it.”

Arsenal will be back in action on Wednesday evening as they travel to face London City Lionesses in the quarterfinal stages of the FA Continental Tyres League Cup.