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Arsenal failings exposed in ‘big six’ matches
London — Arsenal head to Anfield on Sunday seeking to improve their poor recent record against other "big six" Premiership teams amid growing uncertainty surrounding their most creative players, Alexis Sanchez and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Arsene Wenger’s side have not won at Anfield since 2012; after which they have played 50 matches against their major rivals, only winning 11, drawing 19 and losing 20. Away from home, Arsenal have just won two of 24 games at Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Manchester United. Anfield was the scene of one of their greatest humiliations when Liverpool thrashed them 5-1 in 2014, ripping them apart with four goals in the opening 20 minutes. The contrast between their recent failures and that last victory in September 2012, when two of their summer signings Santi Cazorla and Lukas Podolski scored the goals, could not be starker, with Wenger again this week bemoaning the state of the transfer market. Wenger needs to sell before ...
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