Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said he played a video of his side's bitter defeat at Newcastle United a year ago before their vital 2-0 Premier League win at St James's Park on Sunday.
The flimsy defeat on Tyneside last May wrecked Arsenal's chances of finishing in the top four as they were squeezed out by arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur for a Champions League spot.
"We had to feel it. It wasn't enough just to talk about it. Not just the players but the staff as well. That feeling that we didn't do enough that day," Arteta, who made his players watch the Amazon documentary All or Nothing, shortly before leaving their pre-match hotel, told reporters. "When you have the emotions we had last year you have to feel them again, realise how nasty they are and approach the game differently. The boys did that well."
"It wasn't mentioned up until the meeting before we left the hotel. The manager showed us the video of the documentary and we had a burning desire that it wouldn't be the same today."
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