Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold suggests that Arsenal’s loss to Aston Villa on Sunday stemmed from a sense of excitement within the team. Earlier in the day, Alexander-Arnold entered the match as a substitute but couldn’t prevent Liverpool from losing 1-0 at home to Crystal Palace.
Shortly after, Arsenal missed an opportunity to claim the top spot in the league table as they succumbed to a 2-0 defeat against Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium.
Alexander-Arnold reflects, “If those fixtures were reversed and we played second and Arsenal played first, maybe it would’ve been a different mentality. It all comes down to mentality. I think our result played a part in Arsenal’s result. They potentially got too excited and thought,
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‘This is our chance, this is what we need to do.’ Maybe they overthought things, whereas if both us and City won, it made them think, ‘We need to just win,’ rather than seeing it as a chance to break away from the pack. None of us have been in a three-horse race, so it’s difficult.”