“When you lose the first home game you can not afford to drop points in the second”. But I think we are getting the results that we need and this is the most important sometimes when you are playing and you know not everything is happening the way you want, that you find a way to win games.
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Arsene Wenger has admitted new signings Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi were taken aback by the break-neck speed of their Premier League debuts.
“The boys are short of competition and were surprised by the pace and commitment of the Premier League. Mustafi has only played one half since the start of the season with Valencia, so they are missing games”. “They adapted more in the second half”, he said.
Arsenal found themselves behind on 18 minutes, after a Dusan Tadic free-kick hit the crossbar before rebounding in off the unfortunate Petr Cech.
“When Giroud asks me who gave the penalty away that says it all, if you haven’t watched the game and come to criticise please save me that!”
“Obviously we did so, so we are happy with the three points and we go game by game and try to improve every day”.
Arsenal won at Watford before the worldwide break, having previously taken only one point from their first two games of the season, and Wenger said: “Two wins together is a big help, it gives players more confidence to get to where we want to be”.
“I don’t like to speak of the decision of the referee, but we have conceded, in four games in the championship, three penalties”.
“We played with good possibilities, we scored”.
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“We had [chances] to score and win this game against a good team and a draw would have been a [reward]”.
