Criticism from the celebration police promptly adopted Arsenal’s victory over Liverpool on the Emirates final season, with Jamie Carragher left unimpressed by Martin Ødegaard’s makes an attempt at beginner pictures. However “the identical feelings” can be on present if the result’s repeated on Sunday, says David Raya.
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Arsenal had been 3-1 victors when the 2 groups met in February, with Ødegaard marking the celebrations by borrowing the membership photographer’s digicam on the pitch. The Sky Sports activities pundit Carragher fumed: “Simply get down the tunnel. You’ve received a recreation, three factors, you’ve been sensible. Again within the title race, get down the tunnel. I’m critical, actually.” His fellow pundit Gary Neville added: “There’s just a little little bit of immaturity” in Arsenal’s celebrations.
Such disapproval is unlikely to discourage Mikel Arteta’s aspect ought to they find yourself victorious in opposition to Arne Slot’s high-flyers. “Each win within the Premier League is necessary and I feel we should always rejoice each win the identical,” stated the Arsenal goalkeeper Raya.
“In fact, after we performed them within the second half of the season it was an enormous three factors for us and that emotion for everyone to win in opposition to Liverpool is necessary and is unbelievable. If we win on Sunday, it’s going to be the identical feelings and identical celebrations.”
Raya is not going to have William Saliba – who performed each minute within the league final season – in entrance of him for the fixture, with the centre-half suspended after receiving a crimson card within the 2-0 defeat by Bournemouth final weekend. Saliba’s sending-off was Arsenal’s third this season, after the earlier dismissals of Declan Rice in opposition to Brighton and Leandro Trossard in opposition to Manchester Metropolis. Arsenal dropped factors in all three fixtures.
“Saliba is simply making an attempt to do the appropriate factor and simply obtained despatched off which for my part is only a yellow,” stated Raya. “We simply must be taught from the errors we now have made. It’s the third time in eight video games this season that we’ve had a person despatched off. A crimson card modified the competition fully in each recreation. It’s arduous sufficient to win a recreation within the Premier League with 11 gamers, think about it with 10 gamers in three video games this season.”
Raya supplied heat phrases on Trossard, whose misplaced cross culminated in Saliba’s error in opposition to Bournemouth and who missed a late penalty within the midweek victory over Shakhtar Donetsk. “He has an incredible angle, I don’t suppose that’s going to play on his thoughts. He’s a prime skilled and a prime lad. He’s simply obtained to give attention to doing the appropriate issues and you can also make errors, it’s a part of soccer.”
On the problem that awaits, a Liverpool aspect with seven wins from eight within the league, Raya added: “They’ve obtained a brand new supervisor and I feel they’ve elevated the extent. They’re a prime, prime workforce. There are plenty of prime groups within the Premier League now, not simply Manchester Metropolis, Liverpool and us. Anyone can win the league.”
