The French manager is said to have confronted the referee after the game, which was dominated by the north Londoners.
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The Saints will count themselves lucky to have earned a draw at the Emirates and found themselves under pressure at times but due to the fine form of goalkeeper Fraser Forster they were able to walk away with a point.
The Southampton stalemate left Arsenal on 45 points after 24 games, five adrift of league leaders Leicester City in fourth place, having failed to win any of their last four league outings, with no goals scored since the 3-3 draw with Liverpool on January 13.
– Koeman said: “You had 10 chances to score and didn’t take any of them, instead you take it out on [the officials]”.
“But if you ask every single manager that I have worked under, maybe just one or two would say I am a bad apple in the dressing room”, Adebayor told the Evening Standard newspaper.
Southampton’s Dutch boss also claimed Wenger was blaming the referee for his own team’s failings, according to the Daily Mail, saying: “You had 10 chances to score and didn’t take any of them”. Leicester City’s placement in the league is a huge surprise, and many critics are still expecting them to tail off a bit at the end of the season. We have Walcott, Giroud, Ozil, Sanchez and Welbeck, who is coming back.
Wenger’s hesitation about making major signings in January is a reasonable one, but with the race for the English Premier League title being highly contested, one major signing could be the difference between winning and losing the title.
While Forster was enormous in goal, the Gunners had enough opportunities to win with Mesut Ozil and Laurent Koscielny both missing chances, the defender heading over the bar with the ‘keeper off his goalline.
“We came out with a 0-0, with the experience we have in our team, that’s disappointing”.
We’ll be conducting a live Q&A with Standard Sport columnist Tony Evans today at 12pm. You rate the quality of the chances you create and the quality of the finishing.
“Normally it’s more hard for opponents to create that many chances against us”.
“The only thing you could say was their goalkeeper had a great performance”.
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Koeman was quick to admit that his team had enjoyed their fair share luck given the sheer amount of chances created by Arsenal.
