“We lost too many challenges today, they were sharper than us”, manager Wenger told BT Sport after second-placed Arsenal missed a chance to leapfrog Premier League leaders Leicester City.
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The hosts continued to counter well, as O’Grady’s header from a corner needed a goal-line clearance from Luke Murphy. The point puts Steve Evans’ side up to 12th in the Championship standings, with Dougie Freedman’s Forest 13th.
“Well, I think Southampton made the game very physical”.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger refused to criticize his own players, instead blaming the referee Jon Moss for Southampton’s first three goals.
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“It is the quality of our performance that counts and we were not good enough to win the game (against Southampton)”. Their first shot on goal went into the top corner from the right-back (Martina), the second goal came after a foul on (Laurent) Koscielny. If you are a bit under level and on top of that you have the first three goals against you with decision-making, it is even more hard. And now we have Cazorla and Coquelin out with long term injuries, Alexis having suffered a setback and, quite probably, Ozil in the red zone, will soon suffer an enforced absence (I hope not but I wouldnt be surprised). Have your say in the comments section below.
Southampton head to West Ham with boss Ronald Koeman determined to build on an emphatic victory over Arsenal. “We caused them lots of problems up front through Mane and Long, it was a ideal performance. Bournemouth have been very good since the start of the season, but I trust my players to respond in a very strong way”.
“On the other side, we can’t dwell too much because in 48 hours, we play again”.
As we saw, things turned out rather differently; our esteemed editor has reviewed the match so I wont comment on the 90 minutes on the south coast. We know if we lost the challenges it is because of that.
“In a normal season you would worry for their chances but in this season of flux, of change, of inconsistency they will probably get away with it”.
“I think we have been scoring goals regularly, we have been creating chances so I don’t think there is anything wrong with what we are delivering”.
Should Wenger play Giroud, I expect to see the Ox replace Joel Campbell who will start if Giroud doesn’t.
Long hit the post while one-on-one with Cech with a minute remaining, but got his second and Saints’ fourth from an identical angle in stoppage time, driving the ball under the goalkeeper after picking up Dusan Tadic’s through ball to round off Arsenal’s humiliation.
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As Ryan Bertrand swung in a corner from the right, no Arsenal defender attacked the ball convincingly, in contrast to Saints captain Fonte, who threw himself between Koscielny and Mathieu Flamini and headed past Cech.
