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Spotted: Bernd Leno having a warm moment with some Arsenal players before the game

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Despite having conceded 3 goals, the 31-year-old had a decent performance against his former club, registering 4 saves – some of them were really good ones.

'He was starting every match': Arteta responds to Bernd Leno's 'politics' Arsenal accusations

 said: "About your question, I'm really surprised by 

"I don't know if he's talking about the politics when he was starting every match or the politics when he wasn't playing. Really surprised about it."

Speaking to SPORTBILD earlier this week, Leno open up on his 

 exit, shockingly accusing Arteta of failing to give him a proper chance at the Emirates.

The German said: "When I realized that it wasn't about performance or quality, I knew that I had to leave Arsenal.

"In preparation, I saw that it is not about performance, but only about politics. It was clear to me: I had to get out of here.

The most important thing for me is to find my rhythm again. Especially after I wasn't actually able to train properly at Arsenal and had no preparation."

 replace Leno as Arsenal's first-choice goalkeeper last season with Arteta putting faith in the Englishman despite his occasional blunders.

As for Leno, the German shot-stopper left the Emirates last summer, joining 

Leno's main issues as a goalie has always been not being able to play with his feet, command his back line and deal with his corners.

He is a super shot stopper in 1 V 1 situations.

But in today's football, you need so much more.

Arsenal's first goal was a classic example of his deficiencies at corners.

He is not confident and does not come out to deal with them.

He always leaves it to his defenders to win the ball in the box and trust his instincts to protect attempts on goal.

White has been a master of the dark arts recently with how he cleverly impedes goal keepers.

If Leno was confident with crosses he could easily have drawn a foul from White.

He did not come out for the ball and did not push White out of the way to deal with it.

Shout out to our set piece coach.

Gabriel went to congratulate him after the goal.

I am sure the team dissected Leno's aerial ability or lack of it prior to the game. 

They said we would go to grounds like Brighton, Brentford and Fulham and struggle. But we have destroyed these teams without much sweat.

Medubi

Wale Banmore

Politics is everywhere in football and the politics Arsenal take was the right decision.@ Ramsdale.

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Spotted: Bernd Leno having a warm moment with some Arsenal players before the game

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