Mohamed Elneny featured in his side’s goalless draw away to Sunderland, as Arsenal all but mathematically dropped out the title race.
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The visitors dominated the early stages with the Black Cats simply unable to match their pace and movement in the middle of the field.
The Gunners missed the chance to climb from fourth to third after Sunday’s 0-0 draw at Sunderland.
“Yes, for me definitely, 100 per cent a penalty”.
They, like Arsenal, did have goalkeeper Vito Mannone to thank for a string of saves, but it was Cech who was forced to make the more desperate stops.
The north London club are, however, likely to have Jack Wilshere to call upon for those games after the England midfielder made his long-awaited return to first-team action at the Stadium of Light.
The lads seem to keep their best performances for the bigger teams so let’s hope that this is the case in the next two games as if they don’t, they could quite easily find themselves in the bottom three with just two games to go.
They came desperately close to the opening goal with 22 minutes gone when, after Jermain Defoe had been tripped by Laurent Koscielny, Van Aanholt hit the angle of bar and post with his free-kick with Cech beaten.
“A team like Sunderland is ready to fight for their lives, and of course they will never give up during the 90 minutes”.
And, despite a 20th consecutive season of Champions League football now looking likely given the win over the Baggies, Wenger knows simply delivering another top-four finish is not acceptable.
“Then the game was much more hard for us”.
In this form and with games against the rudderless Crystal Palace and Aston Villa to come, the Magpies must fancy their chances of getting out of the bottom three come the 15th of May.
Alex Iwobi shot towards goal, and it was blocked by DeAndre Yedlin who was sliding in six yards away.
That is the verdict of pundit and Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher, who is convinced Suarez would have shot the Gunners to the Premier League title in two of the last three seasons. My team is hungry also, but we have to deal with many problems and many competitions as well.
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However, the keeper could only look on helplessly – and breathe a sigh of relief – as Defoe sped on to Lee Cattermole’s through ball, outpaced Mertesacker and sent a lob drifting just wide of the unguarded goal.
