Arsenal boss, Unai Emery, has blamed his strikers for their 3-2 loss to Southampton on Sunday.
Southampton ended Unai Emery’s side’s 22 games unbeaten run with 2 goals from Danny Ings and late header from Charlie Austin.
Arsenal’s goals came from the boots of Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Emery blamed his strikers for not converting their chances.
Emery was forced into changes ahead of the game and started with a back three of Stephan Lichtsteiner, Laurent Koscielny, and Granit Xhaka.
Addressing press conference after the game, Emery said, “We lost. In the 90 minutes we had different issues.
“The second half we were better in the game, with the control and also creating more chances than them.
“With a small action they scored the third goal. They deserved it because they played with big motivation.
“Our game today was similar to what we played before, but the result was different.
think they worked well.
“Good news for Koscielny, good performance in 90 minutes.
“Xhaka played well, Lichtsteiner played well.
We conceded not a lot of chances but their efficiency today was good. We had chances to score more than two goals but didn’t score.
“The control of the game in 90 minutes was more for us than them.”
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