Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is confident that his side can bounce back after their Capital One Cup exit on Tuesday night.
The Gunners lost 2-0 at home to Chelsea thanks to goals from Cesar Azpilicueta and Juan Mata, but Wenger believes it won’t affect them going into the top of the table clash with Liverpool on Saturday.
Wenger and his side currently sit two points above Liverpool in the league and the Frenchman is confident that his players won’t let the Chelsea defeat get to them.
“We will respond against Liverpool, don’t worry,” he told Arsenal Player.
“The home form is a concern but not as big as the statistics show it, because I felt in big games against Dortmund and [Chelsea] we gave easy goals away.
“There are positives and negatives, the negatives are we give the goals away, the positives are that we don’t give many chances away. So we have to keep doing that and focus on the next game.
“It was a disappointing [result against Chelsea] because we put a lot of effort in and played at a high pace and put ourselves on the back foot. Then of course you have to take a big risk always and be a bit open on the counter-attack, and in the end we got punished.
“The first goal was a turning point because it was a corner for us and then a goal for them. Overall we have to learn from that and get back into the next game without losing our drive going forward but be a bit more composed in our final third.”
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt
