Arsenal missed the chance to extend their lead to four points from second placed Manchester City after earning a point against Southampton at St. Mary’s tonight.
Arsene Wenger made a few changes from their last game and his side were slow off the mark and poor in possession in the first-half and were 1-0 down before the break after Jose Fonte found the back of the net.
It wasn’t a great 45 minutes for Arsenal and Wenger must off said something inspiring to the lads during the interval as they cam out a completely different side from what we saw before the break.
10 minutes of free-flowing, attacking football saw the Gunners claw back into the match, firstly through Olivier Giroud from six-yards and then a superb move ended with a classy left-footed strike from Santi Cazorla put our boys 2-1 up. However, it was to be short-lived as a minute or so later the Saints levelled after a quick counter attack.
Arsenal’s night went from bad to worse after Mathieu Flamini saw red but we managed to hang on and leave St. Mary’s with a point.
Still top, but we could drop to third if City and Chelsea pick up wins against Spurs and West Ham respectively tomorrow night.
So what FIVE things did we learn from the Gunners tonight?
Let us know your thoughts below
Good game but we need not loose focus and continue to believe we can do it.
arsene Wenger, please keep to the formation used against Chelsea.
1. Arteta Flamini is a terrible midfield pairing
2. Gibbs is better than Monreal
3. Ozil IS World Class!
4. Theo is badly missed
5. WE NEED A FAST STRIKER!!!!!
As an arsenal fan I’m sad to say out great run is over, Ramsey out for two months, flamini out for 3 games, no Walcott and I can see our season ending here
1. Use Podolski
2. No need for two defensive midfielder against weaker teams
3. Arsenal don’t play well when they get too much rest. Sloppy play today.
4. Need keep atleast Ramsey wilshere rosicky fit. Need them to make those forward runs
5. Flamini needs to buy new shoes. He kept on slipping as if he was wearing roller blades
Another trophyless season and wenger gets rewarded with new contract
Arsene winger has a great hatred for podolski that is why always refused to use him.
should play podolski more-a real live wire
all we need is a striker that is all
Arsenal cannot press a team for 90 mins..overall southampton were more mobile & look dangerous throughout.
we always find it hard to play against pressing teams without theo. it seems like we have no way out. Gnabry and ox are completely different than theo. we dont have a single player who makes runs behind the defence. big problem for the rest of the season. I think everyone is going to start pressing against us more now
dat was da most boaring game !! we want a lethal striker and let flamini rest.