Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admits seeing Liverpool winning the Premier League has been "painful" after they were crowned champions last week.

Liverpool's resounding 5-1 win at home to Tottenham on Sunday saw them win their 20th top flight league title.

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Arteta's Gunners fell short in a title race for a third successive season and, asked whether Liverpool winning the league has hurt him, Arteta said: "Yes, big time.

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"I want to congratulate Liverpool and what they've done, the manner they've done it and how consistent they've been, and I think they fully deserved to win it.

"They are a club who over the last 10 years have been fighting for trophies, winning big trophies like the Champions League

Arteta, who was also without the suspended Thomas Partey for their 1-0 defeat in the Champions League semi-final first leg against Paris St Germain on Tuesday, has been "shocked" by the volume of their setbacks.

"He was super talented and he used to play as a winger or inside, he was a very smart player and none of us thought we would be in this position together in the Premier League," Arteta said about the Bournemouth manager who he played youth football with at Basque club Antiguoko in the 1990s.


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