“The result does not reflect the game but we have to look at ourselves”, said the Frenchman.
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Morrison fouled Mesut Ozil down the right channel and the Germany international’s free-kick towards the back post was met by Giroud whose flick header dropped into the bottom corner of the net.
Wenger insisted: “Sometimes to be in a competition helps you to focus on something else rather than sitting and thinking sadness”.
The Baggies clinched their first home win over the Gunners in 10 years after Santi Cazorla slipped and missed a late penalty.
West Brom’s win over Arsenal was arguably their finest result of the season to date, and they will be eager to build on their performance.
Oxlade-Chamberlain has suffered a small injury setback which means that he will miss Saturday’s Premier League clash with West Brom as well as the midweek Champions League game against Dinamo Zagreb.
However, despite taking the lead through Olivier Giroud against a Baggies side they had lost only once to in 19 previous meetings, Tony Pulis’ side hit back through Morrison and Arteta’s own goal to lead before the interval.
ARSENAL(4-2-3-1): Cech 6; Bellerin 6, Mertesacker 6, Koscielny 6, Monreal 6; Cazorla 6, Coquelin 4(Arteta 14, 4 – rep Flamini 49, 6); SANCHEZ 8, Ozil 8, Gibbs 6(Campbell 63, 5).
Liverpool coped well with what City threw at them in the second half, and they added further salt to the home side’s wound as Martin Skrtel fired home a fourth with nine minutes to go after the ball had bounced loose from an uncleared corner.
“We missed a penalty, we gave a goal away on set-piece, that is ideal to make your afternoon a nightmare and we missed open goal chances”.
– Another blow for Arsenal who always seem to slip up whenever things appear to be in good order.
They did, though, have the better of the opening half-hour, with Alexis Sanchez’s floated free-kick well held by keeper Boaz Myhill, and were first to score. You can talk to him and he is so disappointed and it is hard to blame Cazorla for that. “In the last two games we took one point out of six and that is very hard and very disappointing when you are on such a great run”.
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“On top of that, we have two more injuries”.
