Super Eagles forward Alex Iwobi suffered a thigh injury in Arsenal’s 4-3 loss to Liverpool in their English Premier League new seasoon opener on Sunday, Completesportsnigeria.com reports.
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A thrilling game at Emirates Stadium saw Liverpool trail 1-0 before romping into a 4-1 lead, with Jurgen Klopp’s men then staving off a comeback as Arsenal threatened to salvage a point.
“It looked like after half an hour with 1-0 for Arsenal – it’s very warm and it’s the first game – that it’s not a Liverpool day”.
Klopp stressed that he did not pay attention to Arsenal’s inexperienced centre-back pairing of Calum Chambers and new signing Rob Holding, aged 21 and 20 respectively, and Wenger leapt to their defence after the match despite seeing four goals put past his side. At the back we lack a bit of maturity but you know that before we go into the game. Arsenal certainly do lack leadership and I feel we haven’t had a true leader in our team since the days of Adams, Campbell and Vieira.
“We’ve got huge belief”, Lallana said.
“We will see what happens and injuries can always happen unfortunately but improvement, in my understanding, is about training and using the quality you have. You have to accept sometimes that you can not control absolutely everything even if you try to be as intelligent as possible”. Our mistakes were so big it was so easy to talk about so we changed our way of defending and showed them where the spaces are.
Juan Mata opened the scoring five minutes before halftime and captain Wayne Rooney headed United’s second in the 59th before Ibrahimovic rifled home a shot from 25 meters (yards).
“I think what we ended up seeing today is two vulnerable teams”. So he knows what he can be for them.
“I thought the young lads did OK, but they shouldn’t be thrown into a situation like that”.
With Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City beating Sunderland 2-1 on Saturday, and Chelsea hosting West Ham in a London derby on Monday night, United’s victory was an important one, at least psychologically.
Consequently, it’s apparent that Klopp clearly outlined what he wanted from his players and ensured they obliged.
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Wright, who spent seven years at Arsenal as a player, admitted he has been anxious by the current situation and believes the club becoming more and more obsessed with profits over success.
