There was much talk about Arsene Wenger’s interest in PSG’s young French midfielder Adrien Rabiot.
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Having conceded after just 46 seconds, it was certainly far from the ideal start for the Gunners in the French capital.
The Gunners found their equaliser in the 77 minute when Alexis Sanchez rifled home the rebound from inside the box after Alphonse Areola had parried away Alex Iwobi’s shot.
Stand-in Arsenal captain Laurent Koscielny was quite vocal following his side’s 1-1 draw with Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League.
Arsene Wenger is confident Granit Xhaka will be a regular member of the Arsenal starting XI sooner rather than later.
“This was maybe his [Ospina’s] most influential performance for us”, Wenger said.
PSG took one point from their previous two Ligue 1 games but looked better against Arsenal.
“I think we performed very well and we got a good point. That’s why it is important to have clear rules from the start, and when that changes I inform them”, said the Frenchman. What we want is for him to use that in a very efficient way.
Deep into added-on time, both teams were reduced to 10 men after Marco Verratti and Giroud picked up second yellow cards for an off-the-ball incident before PSG very almost won it with the last action of the game as Marquinhos headed wide from close range.
Blanc had just secured a second successive domestic treble – PSG won the league by 31 points – but failure at the Champions League quarter-finals for the third year in a row led the owners to show their ruthless side.
The Uruguay striker’s most glaring miss came in the first half when he rounded Ospina, only to shoot wide of an unguarded goal. “I am not happy with the result but I am happy with how we played”, insisted Emery, who refused to be critical of Cavani.
“A shocking performance. They will get out of the group, them and PSG, but the chances they gave up, they should have lost the game four or 5-0”.
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“As a defender you still have the pressure that you can make mistakes, even though you are confident the ball has to go past one of these world-class goalkeepers”, Bellerin told Arsenal Player. They put us under a lot of pressure physically, but even in the first half I thought we could be unsafe.
