Last weekend’s defeat at Watford was a bitter one for everyone to take, especially Per Mertesacker.   Our club captain was making his first Premier League start in 532 days, and despite heading in the opening goal, he was not happy with how we responded to Troy Deeney’s equaliser at Vicarage Road.   “Even if you’re exhausted, even if it’s a game where you think you have to make every single step possible to avoid chances, you do it,” Mertesacker told Arsenal Player. “They were coming for us and were having a real go at us.   “Then you need numbers, you need players in the box and players wanting to defend that goal. We lacked that, totally, especially on that second...
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