Arsenal loss has Wenger bemoaning effects of Euro 2016

He is literally saying we will miss him when he is gone, which is no consolation for what we are going through at present.

The Gunners could not cope with periods of intense Liverpool pressure in the second half as they slipped to a home defeat in front of their fans on the opening weekend of the top-flight season.

Given that the Anfield outfit had scored 41 Premier League goals in 2016 prior to the weekend – more than any other club – that should not have come as a surprise, though. You are in a Catch-22 situation with the Euros – do you give the players a rest and start the season without many of your players?

Losing Ramsey is the latest blow after Gabriel joined Per Mertesacker on the sidelines with a serious ankle injury while Alex Iwobi is still waiting to hear how bad the thigh injury is that he picked up during the defeat to Liverpool on Sunday. However, Liverpool excelled in a decisive 18-minute spell around half-time, during which Philippe Coutinho scored twice, Adam Lallana registered and Sadio Mane scored a terrific debut goal.

“That will happen hopefully one or two times in my life but not so early in the game because it was the wrong sign for all of us, it felt for everyone in this moment like “that is it”.

But, after hanging on as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Calum Chambers reduced the deficit, Klopp admitted he may have overdone it with his joviality.

The 66 year-old is into the last season of his contract, but we all know that his job is at least safe until that point, and Gary Neville has moved to defend his position as boss, although is hardly convincing in his reasoning.

“Certainly the second-half performance at times was very good, especially when we went two or three goals in the lead”. Are we still guaranteed our place in the top four this season?

“Scoring four is wonderful, conceding three is the opposite”, Klopp said.

It was Liverpool who got the better of their rivals, with Arsenal’s current frailties at the back ruthlessly exposed by the Reds’ tireless attackers.

Ozil was left in the Arsenal squad which was defeated by Liverpool yesterday afternoon. “You could see that we dropped physically today”.

Whatever he said clearly worked, and that once again shows what a manager we have.