“It’s a sore one for Arsenal. It’s a confidence-sapping defeat because you come in the dressing room after that and think: oh my God, we just got destroyed in the second half.
“Will it impact the Premier League? Arsenal are too good for the other teams they have to play against in the run-in, so they will beat those teams. But watching that game and that second half, I don’t see Arsenal winning anything else but the Premier League.”
Mikel Arteta will hope that Merson is wrong, and that his Arsenal side can come back from the international break and get themselves into the semi-finals of both the FA Cup and Champions League.
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