Kieran Tierney has pointed to a a good start as the reason we secured our first premier league win in almost two months.
Goals from Lacazette, Granit Xhaka and Bukayo Saka ensured we got all three points. Chelsea got one back at the closing stages of the match, before Bernd Leno saved a penalty to keep it at 3-1.
The left back, who won the penalty that Alex Lacazette converted to give the Gunners the lead, was full of gratitude for Bernd Leno for his penalty save.
Here’s what Tierney had to say when he faced the Sky Sports cameras…
On the win…
It’s a start, innit. We needed that today. We needed to give the fans something to be positive about after a few bad results this season. As I said, it’s a good start.
On what went differently today…
I think we just started better. We didn’t wait until we went one-nil down to start playing, we created chances. It’s always hard when you go one down but we started on the front foot today and that’s been the message in training for the last few weeks. Today we done that.
On if he’s sure if it was a penalty…
No. I felt contact and I went down. I’ve not seen it back.
On the youngsters…
All the youngsters here are hungry to play. It’s a big club and they’ve got the platform to play. They came on today and they were brilliant.
On the message at half time…
Keep going. Last few weeks we’ve been in a different situation at half time. We went in a bit more confident and positive and we said keep going. It was hard work that go us there [in the lead] in the first place, so we had to keep that up first and foremost.
On a nervy ending…
Yeah, Leno dug us out of a hole there. That would have been a long five minutes [of stoppage time] had the penalty gone in. Fair play Leno, he’s an outstanding keeper. He saved us today.
On what the result gives Arsenal…
It’s a start. It’s something to build on. We want to get the first win and the three points and slowly but surely climb back up the table. It’s a good start. Yea [it helps the confidence, for sure. Chelsea are a good team. They are higher up in the table than us, so we knew it was going to be tough. To come out of the game with three points was important for us.
