Mikel Arteta has issued a rallying cry to supporters at the Emirates Stadium for Sunday’s match against Liverpool.

Late calls will be made on the availability of a number of key players, despite knowing we will be without the suspended William Saliba.

So our manager wants us to create a siege mentality, rebel against the situation and fight for the three points.

On Friday, he said: “I like watching people, watching individuals, watching teams react to that, and is it ‘look at that and I hate that’?

“I didn’t see the team, the staff once, I didn’t see them upstairs, I didn’t see people talking about it.

“Go ahead, show your teeth, show how much you want it, the incredible opportunity for others, the incredible opportunity for us as a team to rebel against certain situations, we need the crowd more .

On Sunday we need them even more, I’m sure they will and let’s continue.

Mikel was also asked what he hopes can give us the edge against the current Premier League leaders.

“Let things go the way we want them to, you know, and play the game we want to play,” he said. “That we play with dominance. We’ve done it in the past, we’ve done it recently, and we’re playing with that belief, that energy and that commitment that’s needed in a big game like this.

“We are so energetic, you know we are playing Liverpool at home. We really want to play. We have a magnificent team. The atmosphere is going to be great and I’m really looking forward to playing.