Francis Coquelin has already been ruled out of Arsenal’s must-win Champions League tie against Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday amid fears that he is facing a lengthy absence with knee ligament damage.
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“That was enough to make the afternoon a nightmare”, sighed Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal manager.
“I believe that West Brom they were strong in the fight and they had one 100 per cent commitment as well and you have to give them credit for that”. “It was a huge goal when we scored and then you just make sure they do not come back with an easy goal”.
“On another day he puts it in, we lose two points”. After 45 minutes, we were 2-1 down. The same shoddy set piece defending came back to bite Arsenal and the game was level. The other one for Coquelin is a knee problem, I don’t know how serious that is.
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However, in what was the final icing on a particularly rotten cake for the visitors, Santi Cazorla slipped as he took the resulting spot-kick, with the ball sailing high over the Baggies’ goal.
“They were highly focused and had the desire to play”.
But despite the result, Cech insisted that there we plenty of positives to take from the game for the Gunners.
Raymond Verheijen, an assistant coach at multiple World Cups and European Championships, sees Arsene Wenger as the culprit for the club’s woes. On my side I would not explain our defeat by that.
“If Coquelin is out, Flamini is a natural replacement, but I don’t think he’s what they need to get them where they want to be”. We are all down.
“The problem is that there are so many factors that intervene in an injury – how well do you sleep, how well do you eat, how much stress do you have outside the pitch?” said the Frenchman.
Arsenal left West Brom with nothing despite having dominated the game for 90 minutes.
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“There have been games here this year where we’ve been disappointed that we’ve lost”, he said.
