Arsenal responded and hit back through substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and defender Calum Chambers but Liverpool held on to take three points – with Lallana aware that it was not a ideal afternoon in north London for Jurgen Klopp’s side.
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“But. we need to manage the game better especially when they scored the second and gathered momentum”. Football being football, we maybe got a bit complacent at 4-1 but saw it out at the end.
But some astonishing goals from Philippe Coutinho, Adam Lallana and Sadio Mane put the Reds into a four-one lead before Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Calum Chambers added some respectability to the scoreline.
“Mane was outstanding last season at Southampton, but it was clear his ambitions were set elsewhere”.
“We are not stupid”, he said. “It’s hard coming straight off the field and analysing straight away because I’m sure if I watch it from a distance I might pick one or two things we did well that I thought we didn’t, and vice versa”.
Verheijen feels Ramsey proved his quality at Euro 2016 and must leave Arsenal if they can not address the reasons their players consistently pick up injuries.
Arsenal visit defending champions Leicester City on Saturday and Wenger is unsure whether Koscielny, Ozil and Giroud will be ready to return to action at the King Power Stadium.
Arsene Wenger has brought in just three players this summer in Granit Xhaka, Rob Holding and Takuma Asano, with the latter two not likely to play a large part in Arsenal’s season. The first goal we were under the cosh.
“We played well for 60 minutes, but were not good enough for 30 minutes”. I was really happy about having half-time because we could speak about everything.
Well, if Arsene Wenger didn’t need any more persuading as to move for a striker, Alexandre Lacazette showed the world just how good he is again this weekend.
“The game was intense for all of us”.
“Arsenal are a top team, we’ve got a few new players in our squad, still gelling together and if we want to achieve something special this year we’re going to have to be more disciplined defensively as a unit”.
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“Overall, I’m very pleased with the three points”.
