Wenger has ‘no regrets’ about leaving Sanchez out of starting line-up

Arsene Wenger dropped Alexis Sanchez for disciplinary reasons for Arsenal’s 3-1 defeat to Liverpool, bringing a heated week on the club’s training ground to a head and putting the top scorer’s future in doubt.

The Gunners are trying their best to hold on to the star duo but sources reveal that the Chilean has now chose to wait until Arsenal’s top four finish is guaranteed before taking a final call on his Arsenal future.

He has still not signed a new contract, and is leaning towards leaving the club.

One way to save that might be to just announce his retirement from the club at the end of the season.

Alexis Sanchez’s departure from Arsenal grows more and inevitable by the day.

And the bold tactic backfired spectacularly as the home side raced into a two-goal lead in the first half itself and could easily have had a couple more, such was their dominance. I don’t deny Alexis Sanchez is a great player – I bought him – but this was my plan.

“The collective performance was not good enough in the first half and that is the more rational explanation”.

Since 2011-12, in the last 10 games of each season, Arsenal have lost just five of 50 matches.

Liverpool are just a point behind Arsenal, who are now fourth in the standings and occupy the final Champions League spot.

There is really no way around it, the Liverpool defense was very bad against Leicester City. The Reds climbed up to third place ahead of Manchester City’s meeting with Sunderland on Sunday.

Klopp’s preferred 4-3-3 formation has been excellent against the rest of the current top six – in eight matches this season against Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United, Liverpool have won four and drawn four. But disappointing results like the one against Leicester has seen them being unable to mount a title challenge. Simply place £/€20 on either Liverpool or Arsenal to win before the match kicks off and you’ll get a £/€5 free bet for every goal you team scores.

“We did really well”. When the week starts after Leicester everybody was angry, then we produce this performance against Arsenal. We analyzed it and that wasn’t enjoyable.

“We should not forget that we are able to do things like we did today and we will work on it”, Klopp told BT Sport. “It’s not always going up”.

Given their patchy form though, the opportunity to get them onside at 10/1 (11.0) instead of the usual quotes looks a solid option should you want to back them for this one.

“There will be moments when we play like this and win again – and it is what we did this season already in fact – and it will be against a team not in the top six”. It’s not usual to come back like this.