Arsenal face Bournemouth at the Emirates on Monday 28 December at 5.30pm, where a victory could take them top of the Premier League as Leicester do not play their next match until Tuesday, when third-placed Manchester City travel to the King Power Stadium.
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Southampton manager Ronald Koeman, whose side had not won in their five previous league games, said that his players had produced a “perfect performance”. “We were not good enough to win the game and we have to look at that”, coach Wenger told arsenal.com after the loss.
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Arsenal appeared to be runaway title favourites after beating Manchester City six days ago, but their Boxing Day mauling at the hands of Southampton highlighted that they are still missing one key thing: a defensive midfielder.
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“On top of that, well done Southampton and I hope in the next game we have this kind of decisions for us”. Have your say in the comments section below.
Sadio Mane, Steven Davis and James Ward-Prowse grew into the game and, with Long running the channels eagerly, the home side pushed Arsenal back, denying Ramsey and Flamini time on the ball.
Loic Remy is expected to step into the line-up for the meeting against United, whose 2-0 defeat at Stoke means they are going into the game without a win in seven matches. I trust my players to respond well on Monday.
Offside calls against Steven Davis in the build-up to the opener were ignored, as was Laurent Koscielny’s appeal for a foul in the build-up to Shane Long’s close-range strike 10 minutes after halftime. Yet despite the unnecessarily weak squad, we are second; however, does anyone of you reading this who thinks Arsene knows best not think that the team could benefit from another three players being signed before the season started, or even now?
It was the Curacaoan’s first Premier League appearance since September, and Long praised the effort the 26-year-old put in to return to the starting line-up. “We were disappointed and frustrated and the only way is to respond in 48 hours”.
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. And we have top players inside.
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Wenger said that his title-chasing team had been punished for lacking sharpness after they crashed out to the damaging defeat at Southampton.
