If Arsenal had not had first choice centre backs missing does anyone believe we would have scored 4?
It would have been 3-2 or 3-1 to Arsenal.
We will face teams who defend in numbers and I can't see us scoring that many in each match.
yes I agree I don't think we'd of scored the 2 early quick fire goals (and therefore not the 4), and gone 3-1 up if arsenal had 2 better central defenders infront of cech. it would have probably been like you say 3-2, 3-1, or 2-2 if arsenal had been more resilient.
our attack still looks good, against an attack minded hungry arsenal team, and we had openings in the first half notably with the wijnaldum shot etc. so we could have scored before the out of jail free kick. trying to pick the bones out of it can be difficult to make many conclusions from we should look at the stats probably, 16 shots 7 on target for us, 9 shots 5 on target for the gunners. off target 3 each