However, Wenger insisted that the pint-sized goalkeeper remain at the club as the number 2.
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“I have two world-class goalkeepers”, Wenger said, per Sky Sports.
Both sides ended with 10 men after the visitors’ French forward Olivier Giroud, who started on the bench, and PSG’s Italian midfielder Marco Verratti were shown their second yellow cards in stoppage time.
He is a solid option and you would have no problem calling on him if Cech got injured but to chop and change when one keeper is better than the other is a gamble not worth taking sometimes.
The subsequent red card proved to be Giroud’s second dismissal in the space of a year in the Champions League after he was also sent-off in the 2-1 defeat by Dinamo Zagreb last September, but the France worldwide has pleaded his innocence and accused Verratti of play acting in an attempt to get Giroud sent-off.
“But, overall, we played against a good PSG team who started much stronger than us”. “We have rules that the ‘keepers know”.
Asked if Ospina would only feature in Europe, Wenger replied: “I’ll not answer that question”.
“On what he delivered tonight, he has the right to stay in the team for the next Champions League game”. “This is a great striker, one of the best in the world”, he said. Even in the first half you could see that if we managed to keep the ball a bit better we would be unsafe – we created chances.
“The most important things are the opportunities, getting in the box, getting to the ball”, Emery said. “We created chances in the second half and it is a good point for us”.
Nevertheless, it hasn’t been a great start to life as an Arsenal player for the German worldwide since his switch from Valencia ahead of the summer transfer deadline. His first goal is lovely, it’s a shame he does not score after.
“Then we have to work on confidence”.
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Despite not exerting the same level of control in the second period, PSG were still the most likely to score and Angel di Maria and Aurier exchanged passes to slice through the Arsenal defence as the latter was denied by Ospina. “We have it certainly on the television, and I believe Giroud that he did nothing at all”. They were distinctly second-best against a PSG team that’s struggled this year, wasn’t particularly great on the night, but could’ve easily scored four or five goals.
