Latest Gunners news, analysis and much more via our dedicated Facebook page<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\nThe Gunners will attempt to get back to winning ways in Lisbon in Tuesday\u2019s Champions League quarter-final first leg against Sporting, before the runaway league leaders host Bournemouth in a key game on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Experienced midfielder Norgaard said: \u201cThe message is to have a positive body language, to talk with your team-mates, with the coaching staff. Now is not the time to go with our heads down for too long.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fine to be frustrated tonight and also tomorrow to analyse what went wrong, but then we also have to look forward because there are so many big games coming up for this club.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arsenal need to shake off their first back-to-back defeats of the season to avoid further damage to what has until recently been a memorable campaign. \u201cDisappointing evening,\u201d Norgaard told club media. \u201cWe all had our hopes high to win and go back to Wembley, but yeah, that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cSorry to disappoint so many travelling fans, they created an amazing atmosphere and, yeah, today was not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Injury-disrupted Arsenal only managed to threaten periodically at St Mary\u2019s, where few would argue that the hosts did not deserve to progress to Wembley. Ross Stewart coolly struck Saints ahead and Leo Scienza hit the crossbar shortly before Viktor Gyokeres levelled, only for super sub Charles to spark bedlam with a fine finish five minutes from time.<\/p>\n
Goalscorer, and boyhood Arsenal fan, Stewart said: \u201cIt\u2019s just pure joy and elation, an incredible night for the club to beat a team of Arsenal\u2019s calibre in the manner that we did. I thought we were excellent. It\u2019s an incredible night for the club and there were some good celebrations in the dressing room \u2013 we\u2019ll enjoy tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great occasion to look forward to, but we\u2019ve got a lot of league business that we\u2019ve got to take care of, and the gaffer has just reinforced that \u2013 starting Tuesday we\u2019ve got to be ready to go for another tough game.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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