Arsenal Fans Go Mental On Twitter After frightful Coquelin News Breaks
A 2-1 loss to West Brom on Saturday saw that list grow, with midfield duo Francis Coquelin and Mikel Arteta both picking up injuries that will rule them out of the crunch Champions League clash, reports the Mirror.
Former Arsenal winger Robert Pires believes Arsene Wenger’s squad could face their toughest challenges of the Champions League group stage when they face Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiacos over the coming weeks. “We missed open-goal chances”. “But give West Brom credit for fighting”.
“It is a big blow for us”. We were unlucky and it was a bad day because we scored an own goal, missed a penalty and didn’t deserve to lose this game. “Our defending on that level was very, very poor”.
“We have two more injuries”.
Constant tweeted: “Coquelin (knee) is without doubt out for three months. I don’t know, I can only speak for myself”, he stated.
Mathieu Flamini refused to blame Santi Cazorla’s penalty slip for Arsenal’s defeat at West Brom.
The German playmaker has stated in the past that he has great respect for Arsenal midfielder Rosicky and he sees him as his mentor and would not playing with him and learning a few things from him.
Wenger will assess Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud’s readiness to play after the pair’s involvement for France during the global break, when terrorists struck in co-ordinated attacks in Paris during their friendly against Germany last Friday.
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Wenger said that he had no doubts about fielding either player, citing their professionalism. “Sometimes it happens and now it is important to recover and focus on the next game on Tuesday”. “I would not explain our defeat by that”.
“I think Saido was offside for the second header”. We are all down. You can not say at the back we have no experience.
Arsenal dominated much of the second half but struggled to create clear-cut chances.
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’ve got Ozil and Cazorla who have wonderful talent.