It was all going so well. Per Mertesacker, making his first league start since April 2016, had powered in a header to give us a deserved lead against Watford. But by the final whistle the captain had gone from likely matchwinner to distraught and defeated. This is Per’s take on the game: on where it went wrong… With the injuries, especially in the second half towards the end of the game, we want to make changes to bring more energy, to make a difference at the end of the day. I think we could have done a little bit better, when we gained possession we lost it straight away. I think we struggled a lot in terms of that and that’s not our game, you could sense that we struggled a lot in...
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