{"id":74145,"date":"2018-12-30T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=74145"},"modified":"2018-12-30T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T10:01:16","slug":"epl-emery-reveals-why-arsenal-lost-5-1-to-liverpool-speaks-on-iwobis-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=74145","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Emery reveals why Arsenal lost 5-1 to Liverpool, speaks on Iwobi’s performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arsenal manager, Unai Emery, has blamed his defence and officiating, for their 5-1 loss to Liverpool on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Gunners took the lead in the 11th minute, after Ainsley Maitland-Niles converted Alex Iwobi\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n

Arsenal\u2019s goal sparked the hosts into life, as they took the lead within five minutes, through a Roberto Firmino brace.<\/p>\n

Sadio Mane connected with Mohammed Salah\u2019s touch-down to make it 3-1, before Salah converted from the spot in added time of the first half.<\/p>\n

Firmino rounded off scoring in the 65th minute from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second half we needed to stand up, to keep our position individually and collectively on the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two last goals, two penalties, it\u2019s a lot for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cVAR is important \u2013 it\u2019s coming next year, because it\u2019s going to help the referees to take better decisions,\u201d he told BBC.<\/p>\n

On the better performances within his squad, Emery singled out Maitland-Niles and Alex Iwobi for praise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were some positives, Ainsley played as right winger and scored. Iwobi, after some matches not playing very well, today he played 90minutes with a good performance. But defensively we need to be stronger, to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur defensive moments in our box, it\u2019s my responsibility,\u201d he added.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal manager, Unai Emery, has blamed his defence and officiating, for their 5-1 loss to Liverpool on Saturday. The Gunners took the lead in the 11th minute, after Ainsley Maitland-Niles converted Alex Iwobi\u2019s cross. Arsenal\u2019s goal sparked the hosts into life, as they took the lead within five minutes, through a Roberto Firmino brace. Sadio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4427,3367],"class_list":["post-74145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-liverpool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}