Jamie Vardy, who made the high-profile decision to turn down a move to Arsenal this summer, ensured the travelling supporters knew exactly where to aim their boos when he made two strong challenges on Nacho Monreal in the opening 25 minutes.
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Arsene Wenger hit back on Thursday at suggestions that he is afraid to spend in the transfer market amid concerns the Gunners are losing ground to other leading Premier League clubs.
“They have the exactly the same qualities they had previous year and they are team who are very quick on the break and defend well as a unit”.
It was quite clearly a demonstration of how important a player Wenger thought he was for City last season and it is hard to believe he wasn’t sniffing around with Chelsea for his signature this summer. I am not a manager who says “oh, there was a penalty”.
Arsenal defender Rob Holding was unconvinced that Leicester were hard done by.
Arsenal did the double over Leicester last season, inflicting two of their three league defeats with a 5-2 away win and a last-gasp 2-1 victory at the Emirates Stadium.
He said: “We are now in the Champions League and we need something more to play against the big teams”.
Arsenal are favourites to win despite of the injury owes. Tomorrow we will check everything, I hope nothing serious.
“We gave absolutely everything to win the game”. It was widely anticipated that the Foxes would miss last season’s key man N’Golo Kante, now at title rivals Chelsea, but no one expected Claudio Ranieri’s men to go down to a club that is blighted by so many problems.
Having seen an inexperienced defence containing new signing Rob Holding exposed by Liverpool in the Premier League last week, Wenger’s side were largely toothless in attack against champions Leicester.
As far as the game, this was a tiresome one, with the Foxes content to let Arsenal keep possession and play on the counter.
“It’s important because last season we achieved the best thing we could in England”.
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Out: Gabriel (ankle), Serge Gnabry (Olympics), Alex Iwobi (quad), Carl Jenkinson (knee), Per Mertesacker (knee), Aaron Ramsey (hamstring), Danny Welbeck (knee).
