Mustafi urges fellow Arsenal defenders to stay focused against Chelsea

Shkodran Mustafi has warned his fellow Arsenal defenders that they must stay focused against Chelsea after an error-prone season.

Arsenal conceded 51 Premier League goals this term and only kept one clean sheet away from home in the English top-flight.

'However, when we try to play out from the back, people say, "Why aren't they just kicking it out?"

'But that is not our game. The coach prefers that we make mistakes but still play our game.

'You are not going to win without an identity and this is how we want to play.'

'In our team not a lot of players have played in a club level final like this, so for us it is huge,' he said. 'You can tell me what you think. A lot of players, experienced, who have played a lot of finals or a team which is motivated for their first game.

'It depends how you see it. I think it's more positive when you have no experience because you go there, you are looking forward to it. It's a final, you give everything and you are looking forward to win it. For us it's more positive than negative.

'Winning a trophy is very important because that is what you are counting at the end of your career. You are not counting how many balls you have kicked - you are counting how many trophies you won, so that's huge.'

Mustafi, whose campaign has been dogged by multiple defensive blunders, said: 'It's going to be a game where one mistake punishes you and that's why we've got to be very careful.