Swansea’s Sam Clucas struck either side of Jordan Ayew’s strike to give Swansea the points after Arsenal had taken the lead through full back Nacho Monreal.
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Arsenal’s new signing Henrikh Mhkitaryan was joined on the bench by Olivier Giroud, who rumoured to be on the verge of a £20m move to Chelsea. That was the killer. I believe the way we will play will go well with him and we will see his real quality coming out. We were not convincing defensively and not convincing offensively.
“Maybe it is my romantic view, but I like to prepare for a season, put your squad and the relations together and try and do one complete season”.
With the score level at 1-1, Petr Cech completely scuffed his clearance with the ball falling straight to Ayew inside the box, who made no mistake. There isn’t always a rational explanation but sometimes it highlights a lack of concentration’.
Mata said he was pleased to see Sanchez brought into the club to improve the competition for places in the side. “We have to focus now on the next two games against Leicester and Burnley”. We have a long, long run to go in this season and we are still not in a good position.
On Aubameyang, he added: ‘Nothing is concluded.
He said: “We are a club that belongs in the Champions League, so obviously you don’t want to spend years outside of the Champions League spots”. Until it is finished being confident doesn’t help too much’. “I asked him if he could commit tonight and he had no problem with that”, he said. Back to work tomorrow’.
But he has had a stunning early impact at the Liberty Stadium, leading the Swans to wins over Liverpool and Arsenal and out of the Premier League relegation zone.
“I know that everybody is doing their best. Today I am realising one of my dreams to pull on the shirt of such a great club”.
Swansea City were struggling in the Premier League this season before the appointment of Carlos Carvalhal but the Portuguese has managed to cultivate some sort of winning mentality back into the troops. We are not dead anymore. But it is not a miracle we need.
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“We’re happy with what we’ve achieved so far, but this is just the beginning”.
