Arsene Wenger admitted that his gamble of starting Alexis Sanchez on the benchdid not go to plan.
Goals from Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane gave Liverpool a comfortable 2 0 half time lead before the Chilean made his belated introduction to the match immediately after the interval.
He laid on the assist for Danny Welbeck, who was making his first Premier League start of the season, to halve the deficit and inject some much needed pace into a lethargic Arsenal side before Georginio Wijnaldum sealed all three points in stoppage time.
On his decision not to start with Sanchez, Wenger told BT Sport:
(it did backfire), but I felt that in the first half that the strikers suffered because we didn dominate in the midfield.
the second half half you could see that it was easier because Danny Welbeck and Olivier Giroud were much better. So it always debatable.
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had opportunities to come back in the second half and responded well but it true, we didn perform to our level. is a possibility that we can still make it [the top four], so let focus on that.
