Wenger spent £35 million (RM188.3 million) to prise Xhaka from Borussia Moenchengladbach during the close season, making him one of Arsenal‘s biggest ever signings.
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However with the crowd howling and Livermore not even off the pitch an eager Sanchez appeared to snatch at the penalty, directing it near to Jakupovic’s right, who guessed correctly and kept it out.
Sanchez has kept his place up-front, meanwhile Olivier Giroud and recent arrival Perez will be on the bench.
Alexis Sanchez scored twice and missed a penalty as Arsenal secured a 4-1 Premier League win against 10-man Hull City at the KCOM Stadium.
Eldin Jakupovic saved Sanchez effort from the resultant penalty but Hull couldn’t resist the waves of Arsenal attacks in the second half and Walcott netted his 100th career goal after 55 minutes.
Though he performed well in pre-season he is yet to play a minute of competitive football this season; I suspect his future lies away from Arsenal.
The 53-year-old former Manchester United assistant has expressed his frustration at the uncertainty over his position as his spell in caretaker charge approaches two months since the resignation of Steve Bruce in July.
Either way we measure, Arsenal dominated from start to finish and especially dominated in the period before the red card.
“He goes behind and we have many players who like to come to the ball”.
“But we remained serious and in the end we won the game in a convincing way, I would say, overall”.
Two late goals, the second a beauty from Granit Xhaka in added time, better reflected Arsenal’s dominance.
The Gunners were already a goal to the good after Sanchez’s slight deflection of Alex Iwobi’s shot.
A man down and a goal down, Hull were staring down the barrel in the second half and Arsenal doubled their lead soon after the break when Harry Maguire headed into his own net to further compound the problems for the Tigers.
I looked at this particular match and one thing stood out to me: that if we look at touches per minute and passes per minute, Xhaka got a ton of the ball in the final 24 minutes of the game. We have a rule that the keepers know.
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There was much a heaviest defeat of the season for Hull, with early-season surprise packages thrashed for the first time under Mike Phelan, who is nonetheless set to sign a contract to become manager this week, but a typical result for a club who invariably lose to Arsenal. “And I think he had an outstanding game”, Wenger said.
