Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has hailed the reaction from his players to Sunday's 3-2 defeat to Manchester United at Emirates Stadium.

The Gunners were beaten at home for the first time this season thanks to Matheus Cunha's strike three minutes from time with Arteta's side letting slip a chance to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League table.

Arsenal are back in action when they play Kairat Almaty in the Champions League on Wednesday as European football's premier competition ends its league phase.

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"The reaction has been excellent," Arteta said. "We took a moment to bring the temperature down, to pause and to reflect. We asked how do we feel, and how do we want to lead the next four months.

"It was so encouraging and beautiful. "What came out of it was very simple, we have earned the right to be in four competitions.

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"We're going to live and play with courage and a conviction that we're going to win it. "I hope our supporters jump on that vote because that is how we're going to live the next four months."

Arteta and his players have taken the same approach United legend Roy Keane suggested they should in the aftermath of the defeat to the Red Devils.

Arsenal went ahead through an own goal but Bryan Mbeumo and Patrick Dorgu strikes turned the game on its head before Mikel Merino came off the bench to restore parity.

Cunha, though, curled in a beauty of a strike to secure all three points for United and leave Arteta and his men shell-shocked.

"If you step back, they'll have to have a reset and still step back and go we're still in a great position, we've got to get our momentum back and almost a little bit of confidence," Keane said on Sky Sports. "I can't believe they don't look like a confident team, where they are in the league and what they're doing in the other competitions."

Arteta has confirmed that defenders William Saliba and Jurrien Timber will miss the Kairat clash. "Those players are out," he said of the pair, who join the suspended Declan Rice and Merino in missing the clash.