What Mikel Arteta said about Jorginho's performance for Arsenal against Aston Villa

Jorginho received praise from Mikel Arteta for his "tremendous" performance in Arsenal's 4-2 victory over Aston Villa.

 Since moving to north London from Chelsea in January, the 31-year-old has had a difficult time adjusting, with each of his prior appearances ending in losses to Everton and Manchester City.

But in order to clear things up, Jorginho successfully took Thomas Partey's place in the center of the Arsenal midfield. And he came close to recording his first victory while wearing an Arsenal jersey with a spectacular long-range strike.

The Italian international had a "huge impact" at Arsenal both on and off the field, Arteta said in a post-game interview with the media. The Spaniard continued by pleading with the crowd to support Jorginho and comprehend the significance of his role in the Gunners' bid for the Premier League championship.

"I certainly didn’t see that quality of him - scoring from deep," Arteta said. "The biggest quality he has is that he makes other people look better, better than what you actually are.

"He’s made a huge impact already on the boys and the staff and hopefully our fans. I hope people can see that because I thought he was tremendous today."

Arteta continued by highlighting the confidence boost Jorginho—as well as the rest of the team—got from the victory over Villa.

He said: "I feel it’s right back with more belief than before because you have to turn performances into results.

"Against Brentford, we did that but we couldn’t win it because of a decision - fine - against Manchester City we deserved more with the performance but the reality is that in football the games are decided in the boxes.

"Today we have to put something else and there’s still a lot of things to improve, we have to be humble enough to see those things, recognise those things, work on them because we cannot those bigger margins. You don’t have to produce as much as we do every single game to win games. Smaller margins should be enough to win games in this league consecutively and we have to improve that."