After Arsenal’s draw with Southampton, Gabriel Jesus accepts responsibility and warns his teammates.

At St Mary’s, Granit Xhaka gave Mikel Arteta’s side an early lead, but the Gunners were unable to build on their lead, and Stuart Armstrong’s second-half goal rescued a point for Southampton.

Meanwhile, Jesus missed two excellent chances to extend Arsenal’s lead, reducing their lead over Manchester City at the top of the Premier League to two points.

‘I’m disappointed, we’re all disappointed with the result today because we know our quality, we know we could have won the game today the way we played,’ Jesus said after Arsenal’s 1-1 draw with Southampton.

‘Of course, we dropped a little bit of our level, we have to come back because this league is tough, it’s difficult.

‘Everyone is upset, now it’s the difficult time I think, the difficult time is coming so everyone has to be alert, and focus more, we have six or seven games before we stop before the World Cup, so we need to come back, relax tomorrow but come back strong because that’s football, sometimes you drop a little bit but you have to realize and wake up, that’s what we have to do now.’

When asked if he feels the mid-season World Cup is a distraction, Jesus replied: ‘The only thing I know is I have to do my job here. I have to focus here and then if they [Brazil] call me I go and focus when the time is the World Cup, not now.

‘Now my focus is here. Arsenal is my club. I think everyone has to realize the World Cup is not yet, we have to focus here.

‘I think we’ve dropped a little bit of our level, with and without the ball. That’s going to happen sometimes, we’re young, I’m still young as well, and we have to be more focused sometimes.

We create a lot, like today, again we create but we are not finishing well. I put myself in that, of course, because I had some chances today, I could have scored one or two then we win the game.

‘As I said, sometimes football is like this. You create and play well, but you don’t score and you don’t win the game, it’s hard, it’s difficult, it hurts.

‘But what can we do now… it’s past, we have to realize, wake up, improve and come back.’