“We will have 11 very good players on the pitch against Arsenal and we will have a very strong bench, I’m really sure”.
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“At this moment, we switched off the machines”.
Adam Lallana was relieved to escape Emirates Stadium with three points after Liverpool held off Arsenal’s stirring comeback on Sunday.
“It’s cost us more than any Premier League match last season and it’s only the first week”, said spokesman Wayne Lincoln.
“We pushed players today, like Aaron Ramsey”, Wenger told the BBC.
“We lacked experience at the back and we were physically short. We had four players who went very late”.
After seeing a penalty saved by Simon Mignolet, Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead, only for Coutinho to reply with a picture-perfect free-kick in first-half injury time.
“You are in a catch-22 situation with the Euros”.
Olivier Giroud misses out too so Wenger will be forced into a reshuffle up front, but he will hope to have all of his first-team stars back next week as they continue to build their fitness after extended breaks.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said he was wrong to celebrate Sadio Mane’s goal so exuberantly – his side’s fourth.
Asked how long Ramsey was likely to be out for, Wenger replied: “I don’t know yet”.
Arsenal vs Liverpool is always an entertaining affair and the opening weekend clash of the season hasn’t let us down. You have to consider, as well, that we have been unlucky with losing Mertesacker and Gabriel, and having Koscielny not fit.”Jürgen Klopp, the Liverpool manager, could be delighted with the cutting edge that his players showed”.
“When we had good orientation, used the wings and used the width of the pitch, Arsenal had to run and today it was really hard to do this for 90 minutes”.
Wenger: “Everybody’s ambitious – never has the Premier League been gifted with so many ambitious people or clubs at the start of the season”.
“You sometimes have to accept that you can not control absolutely everything even if you try to be as intelligent as possible”.
“That’s important because it gives us the confidence and knowledge that we can score goals – that was clear before this game”.
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There was no need for such excuses from Mourinho, whose first league game in charge of United was a far more comfortable affair. The England worldwide dusted himself down to take the resulting penalty only for Simon Mignolet to guess right and make the save.
