Arsenal star singled out for praise by Shakhtar Donetsk boss after Champions League defeat

Shakhtar Donetsk manager Marino Pusic was near to rue the brilliance of David Raya whose precocious prevention helped Arsenal instrumentality to winning ways successful the Champions League past night.

The Gunners, looking to bounce backmost from Saturday’s daze defeat against Bournemouth, were again immoderate mode abbreviated of their champion and were forced to excavation heavy precocious connected having wasted a big of opportunities to marque for a acold much comfy evening.

Ultimately, the 2 teams were separated by Dmytro Riznyk’s unfortunate ain extremity and though the goalkeeper partially redeemed himself precocious connected with a punishment prevention from Leandro Trossard, that changeable of misfortune proved decisive.

Skakhtar did nutrient a spirited precocious rally and came wrong a whisker of rescuing anunlikely constituent lone for Raya to adhd different fantabulous prevention to his burgeoning catalogue.

‘It was a fantastic prevention from him and to beryllium honorable I thought it was a extremity due to the fact that the changeable was besides precise good,’ said Pusic aft the game.

‘But of people it’s a quality, prime goalkeeper and you request to beryllium a spot fortunate with that ball, possibly for it to bounce to astonishment him oregon thing similar that.

‘But astatine that infinitesimal I was truly hoping that’s it this is the goal.’

Arsenal are backmost successful enactment connected Sunday against Liverpool successful a must-win Premier League clash and Mikel Arteta acknowledged his broadside person important country for improvement.

‘Well we played 2 and fractional days ago, aft internationals, aft flying from Brazil and galore countries, I was expecting that we could driblet disconnected a small bit,’ the Arsenal manager said.

‘And the information we enactment truthful overmuch successful the archetypal fractional and didn’t person and get the region successful presumption of the effect and the scoreline that far, I deliberation we paid a small spot of that.

‘Then we made beingness much hard for america due to the fact that evidently we started to springiness the shot distant and not regain the shot successful the close areas and it was much unfastened truthful that didn’t assistance but we person 4 days and judge maine connected Sunday we volition beryllium flying.

‘We’ll reappraisal what we person to do, we person a time disconnected and past 2 days to hole the crippled and Sunday is acold and we are much than comfy that we’ll beryllium successful a large place.’

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