I hope we don’t regret this

From Back Page a bit apprehensive in the first 20 minutes, a bit on the back foot — 1-0 down, came back convincing, 2-1 down, shown character again, 2-2, 3-2. ‘The frustration comes from the fact that we then had three situations where we should have made it 4-2 and made bad decisions. The frustration comes from conceding in the last minute. But we have again shown great character to come back with a point. It shows everyone is very even. ‘We have to transform the frustration in the dressing room into even more motivation. There are a lot of positives. What happened should strengthen our belief. I cannot fault the effort and commitment of the team.’ Giroud, whose outstanding performance was described as ‘precious’ by Wenger, told BT Sport: ‘It is disappointing because we were 3-2 up. It was a nice game for the fans because there was a lot of intensity and chances. ‘When you concede three goals in an away game it is hard to win. My first feeling is disappointment but we have shown character to come back from 1-0 and 2-1 down. Hopefully, we are not going to have to regret this goal at the end of the championship. ‘It is still a draw, they’ve done well at the end of the game and pushed a lot. It’s a good performance but we could have done better.’ Klopp, who ended up putting his new loan signing Steven Caulker on as an auxiliary striker late in the game, was left to rue the errors that gifted Arsenal their first two goals but was delighted with the manner in which Liverpool responded. He said: ‘It was a great game. Maybe we won’t talk about this game for too long because Sunday is Man Utd — but it is not easy to forget. The start was really good, not perfect but not too far away from it. ‘We played really good football. We have to defend better. We have to work on it, will work on it. We will analyse it and work it better.’ Klopp was effusive in his praise for £29million signing Firmino, saying: ‘I could talk about this for half an hour. He doesn’t know how good he is. All of them really good, perfect goals — the first goal was really good, the second spectacular, brilliant.’