Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said his team paid for their profligacy in the final third in their loss to Southampton on Saturday and expressed concerns about their recent slump in form after they fell to a third straight Premier League defeat.

阿森纳主帅米克尔·阿尔特塔表示，他的球队在周六输给南安普顿的最后三分之一的比赛中为他们的挥霍付出了代价，并对他们最近陷入英超三连败后状态下滑表示担忧。

Jan Bednarek's first-half goal proved enough for Southampton to secure a victory at home as goalkeeper Fraser Forster helped them see out a 1-0 win despite Arsenal dominating possession and having 23 shots at goal.

扬·贝德纳雷克上半场的进球足以让南安普顿在主场取得胜利，门将弗雷泽·福斯特帮助他们以1-0的比分获胜，尽管阿森纳控制了控球权，并且有23次射门。

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"It's a real worry. We've lost games in different ways. To lose the way we did today is difficult to explain. If you saw the game, you'd say Arsenal had won comfortably... It's a really difficult one to take," Arteta told reporters.

“这是一个很大的隐患。我们以不同的方式输掉了比赛。输掉比赛的方式是我们很难理解的。如果你看过这场比赛，你会说阿森纳轻松取胜......这是一个非常难以接受的，“阿尔特塔告诉记者。

"We performed but didn't get a result. We need both. You have to put the ball in the net. You have to make the decisive moments count to win football matches and at the moment we're not doing that.

“我们表现得很好，但没有得到结果。我们两者都需要。你必须把球踢进网里。你必须让决定性的时刻变得有价值才能赢得足球比赛，而目前我们还没有这样做。

"Forster was incredible, the saves that he made today. It was a defining moment. That's why I say the box has decided the game today. You could see the game was one-way traffic."

“福斯特令人难以置信，他今天做出的扑救。这是一个决定性的时刻。这就是为什么我说盒子决定了今天的比赛。你可以看到游戏是单向交通。

Southampton capitalised on a defensive error to take the lead and Arsenal, having failed to take advantage of early chances, were lacklustre in attack until late in the second half when Forster's saves kept them at bay.

南安普顿利用防守失误取得领先，阿森纳未能利用早期的机会，进攻乏善可陈，到下半场晚些时候福斯特的扑救让他们陷入困境。

Having also lost to Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion, Arsenal have slipped to sixth in the standings with 54 points, level with Manchester United and three behind north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

在输给水晶宫和布莱顿霍夫阿尔比恩之后，阿森纳以54分在积分榜上滑落至第六位，与曼联持平，落后北伦敦竞争对手托特纳姆热刺三分。

"The way we controlled the game makes it difficult to understand how we lost," Arteta said. "The way we defended for the goal wasn't good enough.

“我们控制比赛的方式让人很难理解我们是如何输球的，”阿尔特塔说。“我们防守进球的方式还不够好。

"We didn't hit the target many times and the end product was not as good as it can be. We conceded a very sloppy goal from a set-piece. When you have the amount of situations we created, you need to score three or four.

“我们没有多次达到目标，最终产品也没有达到预期的效果。我们从定位球中丢了一个非常草率的进球。当你拥有我们创造的情境数量时，你需要打三到四分。

"[The players] are really down today and they are down because they cannot find the right answers apart from what we can do better around the box. That's the frustrating part."

（球员们）今天真的很沮丧，他们很沮丧，因为他们找不到正确的答案，除了我们可以在禁区内做得更好。这是令人沮丧的部分。