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'Sense of deflation running deep'
By Isaan Khan At The Emirates
Arsenal's title bid was a mild hope before this game. Now, it seems a distant dream.
These are the games where points cannot be dropped, particularly when a team such as Liverpool are running rampant at the top.
It was hard to see where a goal was going to come from for the Gunners and the Mikel Merino experiment as striker this time didn’t work.