Awkward moment Mikel Arteta brutally humbled by interviewer live on Amazon Prime after West Ham defeat

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MIKEL ARTETA was awkwardly corrected by a reporter after a mistake in his post-match interview following the 2-0 defeat to West Ham.

Arsenal fell to their third Premier League defeat of the season against the Hammers courtesy of goals from Tomas Soucek and Konstantinos Mavropanos.

Mikel Arteta was corrected by a reporter after a making a little mistake in an interview after the West Ham game[/caption]

The Gunners had been top on Christmas Day but then failed to regain their place at the top of the tree due to the defeat and Liverpool winning against Burnley.

However, Arteta incorrectly stated that Arsenal were top of the league in his interview.

Asked about potential January recruits, he told Prime Video: “What we need is to finish the actions better.

“The [players] have done it, they did it last year and we are where we are.

“We’re top of the league so that means that the team does a lot of good things.”

The interviewer then awkwardly pointed out that the Gunners were actually in second place.

The reporter said: “We’re halfway stage, second, how do you evaluate the first half [of the season]?”

After briefly staring blankly, Arteta then responded with a smirk and said: “We want to be better and want to be at the top and today we are obviously very very disappointed.”

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Arsenal visit Fulham in their next league game before facing Liverpool in the FA Cup third round.

A shocking stat has revealed the North London side are the team with the WORSE drop off in points won this season compared to last season.

Arteta’s side have won ten points less than they had won this time last season.

Meanwhile, West Ham are the biggest winners in that metric with 18 more points than what they won by the same stage last season.