French champions PSG, who took only one point from their last two Ligue 1 games, next travel to Ludogorets while Arsenal will host Basel on September 28.
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It was a dream start for the French champions, quarter-finalists in each of the last four seasons, and for Cavani as he seeks to step up and assume the responsibility of leading the attack following the departure of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. “It’s important to have clear rules like that”, the Frenchman added. The two players were already on yellow cards, with the Arsenal striker receiving his first booking for remonstrating with the referee. Ospina was particularly culpable against Olympiakos and was removed from first team duty afterwards.
“Being on a yellow card, I didn’t want to make waves”, the France worldwide said, as quoted by the Daily Star.
However, as seen below, L’Equipe were far from impressed with what they saw from certain Arsenal players, particularly summer signing Shkodran Mustafi, who received a rating of 2/10.
Wenger is understood to have promised Ospina that, outside of Premier League action, he would remain the first choice goalkeeper, i.e. for Champions League, League Cup and FA Cup action.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal forward): “We picked up a point, which is a good thing given how the match went and the good number of chances they had at the end”.
“He [Walcott] has a knee problem, I think it’s very short term but he’s not completely fit so I left him at home.”
We have experience in the Champions League and were resilient. “When you start so badly against a team with such qualities, If you have no experience you can be caught”.
“I don’t want to surprise, I just want to play a team that can perform”, Wenger said. We didn’t panic. Overall we were resilient enough, and the resilience is linked to experience.
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Wenger said based on Ospina’s performance the Colombian would continue in goal for his side’s next Champions League fixture against Basel, insisting he needs to provide both his goalkeepers with opportunities to play in order to keep them at the club. That is what we did. I hope we’ll do better next time, but we’re on the right track.
