But he was more concerned that his players had not stood up to the physical challenge of the Saints, particularly Shane Long, who scored the second and fourth goals at St Mary’s. “We cannot master the referee’s decisions but we can master our behaviour”, he said.
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When Per Mertesacker headed away a routine cross from the left, any danger to the Arsenal goal seemed to have been averted until Martina hit the ball first time with the outside of his right foot, sending it curling past Petr Cech and into the bottom-left corner from fully 30 yards. But well done Southampton and we hope that in the next game we have this type of decisions.
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I smile, I don’t smile. Although Bournemouth might give a good fight, I think they will be way too weak to win this match.
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“We caused them problems on the break and they did not like the pace in behind from me and Sadio [Mane] and we played on that”, Long told BT Sport.
Virgil van Dijk had the ball in the back of the net again five minutes after the restart, only to be denied by the linesman’s flag, although it would be just five further minutes before Southampton legitimately added a second goal.
Leicester do not face Manchester City until Tuesday, but Wenger is not concerned about starting 2016 at the top of the league.
Arsenal welcome Premier League newcomers Bournemouth to the Emirates in an evening kickoff on Monday, and Wenger is confident that his charges will bounce back.
“Many challenges we were second best, but the referee let a lot go as well and when you are not dominant that’s the kind of price you have to pay”.
Despite dominating possession throughout the game, Arsenal remained defensively jittery and failed to create enough threatening chances against a Southampton team that had lost five of its last six games.
“We are in a job where we have to respond”.
Boss Slaven Bilic is hopeful Cresswell (hamstring) and Tomkins (head) will be fit for the visit of Southampton, but is waiting on Nikica Jelavic after he missed the 1-1 draw. “We were a bit unlucky as well as all the goals were discussable”, Wenger said on BBC Radio 5 live.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger before the Barclays Premier League match at St Mary’s, Southampton yesterday. It curled around an Arsenal defender who was standing in the middle of the penalty arc and somehow tucked inside the near-side post.
“He’s a different number nine to Graziano”.
Long is likely to keep his place in Monday’s match away to West Ham United.
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So it would be easy to continue that and say that the Arsenal train came off the rails in Southampton last night, but I do not think that would be fair or accurate.
