Edinson Cavani had put the home side in front just seconds into the Champions League clash but while Arsenal had to contend with sustained pressure from the Ligue 1 giants in the first half, Arsene Wenger’s men salvaged a point through Alexis Sanchez, late in the second half.
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Shock selection David Ospina, brought in at the expense of Petr Cech, produced an heroic performance in goal, making the saves that kept the Gunners within touching distance.
“I had the chance to score, but my main focus was to get it on target and also beat the goalkeeper, but it was a good save and I was unfortunate not to get the goal”, Iwobi added. I will repeat that.
Giroud and Verratti collided in the 93rd minute of the game, resulting in the referee showing both stars their second yellow cards.
“[In the] 80th minute, they’ve just got back in the game, they’re not pressing”.
Arsenal’s wobble in the Champions League at the start of last season, with surprise defeats by Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiakos that nearly condemned them to an early exit, were partly attributed to Wenger’s decision to play Ospina in goal.
“They made changes to adapt to us and we have made changes to stop them from playing too”. The second, he tells me he has done nothing at all.
“You know, Coquelin and Cazorla have worked well together but [Xhaka] will play games and every week he is stronger and better”.
“On what he delivered, he has the right to stay in the team for the next Champions League game”. “Of course, it’s normal that when you led ten minutes from the end and you end up drawing that you say to yourself that you should have won, especially as we had a lot of chances”.
The local newspaper has claimed that Rabiot could very well have become an Arsenal player, but Arsene Wenger chose to pull out of the deal out of respect for the wishes of PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi.
“There are many positive things [to take from the game]”.
“I didn’t understand, so I asked him: ‘What are you doing?”
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PSG had two more clear chances in the 67th and 69th minutes through Aurier and Cavani. The Swiss midfielder has already displayed a tendency to attract blasts of the referee’s whistle and continuing indiscipline in this regard could be costly. “This is a great striker, one of the best in the world”, he said. They’ll get out of this group, but when they play a decent team in Europe, they’ll get knocked out, and we’ll be saying ‘What do Arsenal need to do?’
