Mikel Arteta was an animated figure on the touchline at Vicarage Road despite the victory over Watford which gives an indication of how far Arsenal have come this season.
The Gunners boosted their top-four hopes with a vital 3-2 win against Roy Hodgson's men, but the Spaniard wasn't best pleased with how his side made hard work of the three points.
Arsenal conceded various chances to the hosts and should have seen the game out comfortably after Gabriel Martinelli's brilliant goal, assisted by Arteta, gave the north Londoners a 3-1 lead in the second half.
But Moussa Sissoko grabbed one back for the hosts on the 87th minute to set up a nervy few minutes for Arsenal.
And Arteta was visibly frustrated at his players throughout the 90 minutes.
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The Spaniard even had grievances when Bukayo Saka gave them a 2-1 lead in the first half as he looked particularly angry, shouting at Gabriel, Martin Odegaard and Granit Xhaka.
Gabriel held his hands up in the wake of the match insisting he must do better.
He tweeted: "I just have to prove to myself what I'm capable of!"
Arteta also wasn't best pleased with how Watford were able to find so much success down Arsenal's left-hand side and was seen yelling at Keiran Tierney and Gabriel Martinelli for neglecting their defensive assignments.
The Spaniard screamed at Tierney for not getting out to Cucho Hernandez quick enough at one point in the first half - who the former Celtic star offered to meet 'outside' after the game - before complaining to the officials after Martinelli failed to provide cover for the left-back.
Arsenal were able to wind the clock down and see out the game, but Arteta admitted that he was unhappy at how his side struggled to control the game.
"Because I didn’t like how we were controlling the game," he said.
"We were allowing spaces against the team who, if we kept allowing that, we were going to suffer. I knew that. We had to put that right and we did it for certain periods.
"Then in the last 25 minutes, we lost it again. We have to show that maturity, understanding and capacity to control the game how we wanted to.
"At 3-1, after, we had to make 300,000 passes in the opposition half and when they have the right moment to come at us, then we can attack them. We didn’t do that.
"The game was open and you had the feeling that the game was open right until the end."
