We have gained a bit of confidence from winning a few games. Straight away you have a little bit of scepticism and doubt, you know, in your head.
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Arsenal have won six games at the KCOM Stadium in all competitions – more than any other away side. Saturday’s victory was their seventh in a row on Humberside, where their last defeat came in 1915. Arsenal were both terrific and flawed, threatening to run riot, yet in danger of conceding an equaliser to the 10 men of Hull. “I was right behind him and I don’t know if he was going to shoot, I was screaming at him “shoot, shoot” in German”.
Gabriel is nearly ready to come back but he will struggle to displace Mustafi and Holding also looked good, while the battler between Ospina and Cech is looking closer than ever.
“I honestly thought I scored but he kept saying ‘I got a touch, please let it be my goal”, said Iwobi.
Alex Iwobi deserves a regular starting spot for Wenger’s side. Anger turned to relief as Jakupovic got down low to impressively save Sanchez’s penalty, with the goalkeeper earning more applause after preventing Ahmed Elmohamady from turning into his own goal.
Sanchez added his second before Robert Snodgrass converted a spot-kick for Hull.
Substitute Xhaka put the icing on the cake when he was given acres of space to launch a spectacular 30-yard strike that looped over Jakupovic.
“They are such quality players”, said the midfielder.
The more I play with them, then the more I will mature on the pitch.
“I’m very happy for him”, Wenger said.
Koeman, 53, led Southampton to a seventh-placed finish in the Premier League in his first season in charge after replacing Mauricio Pochettino – and bettered that with a sixth-placed finish last season, with an impressive points tally of 63 (the club’s highest ever).
Despite a mixed start to the campaign Wenger’s side are third in the table, five points adrift of early pacesetters Manchester City.
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Wenger said: “It’s only his second game since he came back from injury but today he had more presence in the game, more confidence when he takes the ball and he can be very unsafe going forward”. Hull, who became the first club since Aston Villa eight years ago to name an unchanged line-up in their first five Premier League games, rarely looked likely to end their 101-year wait for a home victory against the Londoners.
