Arsenal‘s aerial threat looked their best chance of breaking down Spurs’ resistance but Giroud’s accuracy was off and he nodded Ozil’s latest delivery wide of the far post after rising unchallenged. They have been playing well and Arsenal are down on confidence. They will once again be without forwards Theo Walcott (calf) and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (hamstring) as well as midfielder Aaron Ramsey (hamstring).
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Ozil swung over a deep ball from the right, which floated across the Spurs area and Gibbs arrived on queue at the far post to volley past Lloris, as the goalkeeper fell back into the net.
Aston Villa marked Remi Garde’s first game in charge by frustrating Manchester City 0-0 to end a seven-game losing streak in a meeting of the bottom and top teams in the Premier League on Sunday.
Fifth placed Tottenham’s hopes of avenging their League Cup loss against Arsenal earlier this season won’t be helped by their gruelling schedule over the last week. The team will fancy runs off of him for looks towards Lloris’ net.
The key for Arsenal is to maintain possession and keep the pressure on.
Nonetheless, Arsenal still stand a mathematical chance of making it into the Round of 16 and goalkeeper Petr Cech is very confident that his side will be able to get the job done during their final two group matches. A must for Arsenal is to maintain an open man ready for the pass. Tottenham seem to favor double-defending, creating havoc in Arsenal’s possession.
In fact, Wenger added on Arsenal.com: “Bellerin unfortunately, will not be ready, I think he could be back after the break”. “They are a good side and we paid for it”.
This game is also famous for Danny Rose’s screamer early on in the game when Arsenal cleared a corner rather poorly.
Robert Pires has acknowledged the importance of the Champions League, but says that the main objective of Arsene Wenger and the players is to win the club’s first Premier League title since 2004.
Arsenal then wasted three opportunities all created by Ozil from deadball situations.
It comes at a time when injuries have laid waste to the Arsenal squad and with Spurs unbeaten in the league since the season’s opening day, Wenger knows that his team will need every ounce of self-belief they can muster.
But Spurs continued to create chances of their own, with Eriksen having a shot deflected fractionally wide by Flamini following a one-two with Kane and then forcing Cech to parry with an angled drive.
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“It was a disappointing result on Wednesday night but before that we did extremely well in the Premier League”, Wenger told reporters.
