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The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger saw his team fail to score for the first time this season, and lose for the first time in 13 games, and he was not very impressed!

He refused to pinpoint the cause as the lack of Van Persie in attack, and says the team should be scoring goals even without the prolific Dutchman, and they now have the chance to prove it against Standard Liege in the Champions League.

“We have a good opportunity to finish first in the group and qualify, then after we can think about Chelsea.”

“The perfect way is to respond after a disappointing result, that is where you judge a big team and that is what we want to do.”

He continued: “We had some deficiencies [against Sunderland] which we paid for and we have to make sure that is not repeated.

“We did not produce enough in the final third, which had been our strength until now.

“We did not have the right fluency in our game, nor enough penetrative runs to force the issue in the final part of the pitch.

“That is why we were not dangerous, rather than down to any individual.

“I do not deny at all the super-class of Van Persie, I just feel we still have enough in the locker to score goals even when Robin is not there.”

I am sure that now Eduardo and Rosicky have got some more game time, they will get sharper and sharper as time goes on. Hopefully starting against Liege!