Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna has admitted that the side took too long to settle during their 1-0 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.
The Gunners started to get into the game a lot more in the closing stages of the match, but it was all too late for them as they failed to cancel out Robin Van Persie’s first-half header.
Sagna, who supplied two phenomenal balls in the second-half with no end result, spoke to the club’s official website after the game and he admitted that the players just couldn’t get going in the early stages.
“After playing like that during the first half, we couldn’t expect more,” Sagna told Arsenal Player. “The only positive today is we kept playing during the second half, we showed them we were a better team but we had to do this all through the game and we started playing too late.
“We wanted to finish [the week] on a good note, we didn’t, so it’s a bit hard to take. That is football, I think we learn about our team, about football as well.
“If we don’t give the maximum and if you lose decisive challenges you put yourself in trouble and that’s what happened during the first half.
“But I want to think positive, I want to keep looking forward, I want to think we are first and we want to stay first. The best way to do it is to respond well on the next game.”
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt
