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Match Preview: Bodo/Glimt v Arsenal
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta (third left) and staff during a training session at the Arsenal Training Centre yesterday

by Layth Yousif in Norway
        

THE Arctic air is cool and crisp and lends a clarity to everything you survey in the pleasant northern Norwegian coastal town of Bodo. 

The same could be applied to the razor-sharp focus Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has right now. 

Fresh from the club’s momentous 3-2 victory over Liverpool at the weekend, the Gunners travelled to the Arctic Circle to take on Kjetil Knutsen’s Bodo/Glimt on their plastic pitch. 

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