Boos from the home crowd at the final whistle made clear the fans’ feelings about the performance, along with their unhappiness at a lack of high-profile signings by manager Arsene Wenger to strengthen a team that finished second behind surprise champion Leicester last season.
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While the makeshift defence conceded four goals, the decision to play Euro 2016 semi-finalist Aaron Ramsey also backfired, as the Wales midfielder was substituted early with a hamstring injury.
“We pushed players like Ramsey and he got injured again”, said Wenger.
Steve Freeth of bet365 said: “Ibra has been heavily supported in our top goalscorer market and it all bodes well for his backers as he got off the mark at the first time of asking”.
Their inexperience was exposed as Jurgen Klopp’s side raced into a 4-1 lead after Theo Walcott had put Arsenal ahead, with Phillipe Coutinho scoring a brace while Adam Lallana and Sadio Mane also found the net.
Klopp, starting his first full season as Liverpool manager, celebrated each of the visitors’ goals with trademark abandon, but blamed his reaction to Mane’s goal for the way his side eased off at the end.
“I have a big, big part in the excitement of the last half an hour because it is not allowed to celebrate a fourth goal when there’s still 35 minutes to go”.
“I don’t know why, but it seems like it”, Henry added.
“I said it a few times but it was in Liverpool and we are in London so maybe you didn’t hear this”.
“Over the whole 90 minutes, though, it’s a deserved win”.
Wijnaldum had a chance on 40 minutes following Callum Chambers poor pass but he couldn’t finish off Coutinho’s cut back as Cech got down well to save the goal-bound strike. “We will see what we can do with the players who are preparing at the moment and the players that can recover”.
Now let us know how you saw it. He said to use how fit we are and how we can really push on in the second half.
Liverpool come up trumps in seven-goal thriller Liverpool came from behind to begin their Premier League season with victory in a seven-goal thriller against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
And there was little the Arsenal goalkeeper could do as Liverpool stunned the hosts in the opening minutes of the second half.
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“When you are 4-1 down in the opening game it’s sometimes hard to find guts to react but we scored two goals”.
