Arsenal broke an undesirable Premier League file as they laboured to a 2-0 defeat towards West Ham United.
On Thursday the Gunners missed the possibility to leapfrog Liverpool and return to the Premier League summit, after they fell to a dismal defeat to West Ham.
West Ham’s Tomas Soucek rifled dwelling from shut vary after 13 minutes from Jarrod Bowen’s cut-back from the byline – with VAR subsequently looking at whether or not the ball had gone out of play from the help.
The prolonged VAR verify resulted within the aim being given, with no clear angle accessible to the officers.
The scoreline may have been even worse for Mikel Arteta’s males after Declan Rice conceded a penalty towards his former aspect in damage time for a careless problem on Emerson, however David Raya saved Mentioned Benrahma’s spot kick.
Arsenal additionally had a number of alternatives to attain, with Bukayo Saka hitting the submit and Gabriel Jesus squandering two huge possibilities to cut back the deficit.
The truth is, Arsenal ended the sport with 30 photographs regardless of failing to seek out the online.
And in keeping with the BBC’s Match of the Day, towards West Ham Arsenal grew to become the primary workforce in Premier League historical past to have had 77 touches within the opposition field with out scoring.
After the sport Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard instructed Amazon Prime: “It is a kind of nights. We had a whole lot of possibilities and did sufficient to attain some objectives, however within the field, we weren’t adequate. We take the great issues and study from the issues we did not do nicely.
“We created sufficient and had some huge possibilities. We’re collectively as a workforce. It isn’t about some gamers [not scoring]. We’ve to enhance in entrance of the aim and it is all the way down to the entire workforce to do this.
“I assume it was an in depth name [whether the ball was in play or out for the first goal]. Hopefully, they’ve made the suitable name there. Nonetheless, after that, we had sufficient possibilities to win the sport.”
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