“Arsenal is used to playing English teams whose market value is much bigger than ours but these rivals nurture a different style, Mamic said”.
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When the hosts threatened to break, it was Debuchy and Arteta they targeted to great effect.
Wenger was livid with referee Ovidiu Hategan after the game.
Arsenal’s 1-0 win at Wembley in August was Wenger’s first win over Jose Mourinho in 14 attempts and Chelsea have since made a poor start to the season, losing three of their last four games. “It just didn’t work”.
Wenger owned up to his club’s shortcomings. Worse followed for the visitors when Giroud was shown a second yellow card for a reckless challenge after he was earlier booked for dissent.
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“On the first booking, Giroud was unlucky with the decision, but he shouldn’t have protested at all”.
“Yes, he (the referee) was rash (with the second yellow card)”. It happened and I think at that moment it was not a second yellow. It has to be on objective , a foul on goal . “(If that was a yellow card), he should have given many (more)”. All of a sudden they were punished.
The Gunners are in a very tricky group with Bayern Munich completing the quartet in Group F.
French attacker Olivier Giroud was sent off before half-time for two bookable offences as the Premier League side crashed 2-1 to the Croatian giants. “We figured out we could play even against Arsenal“. “But my players did a great job too”.
The tough-tackling centre-back believes that the Frenchman’s recent hard patch in front of goal led to his sending off in the Champions League clash with Dinamo Zagreb, and thus, it would be a major gamble to select him for a game as important as the one against Jose Mourinho’s side (via Metro).
“This is not new”. It is already looking as though Chelsea will not be challenging for the title this season, especially if Arsenal beat them on Saturday and open up a nine point gap.
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Walcott reduced the deficit on 79 minutes when he produced a cool finish after sprinting clear onto Sanchez’s pass down the right, but there was to be no late drama despite some five minutes of added time.
