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Tadic: Arsenal start a blueprint
- Updated: September 15, 2016
Dusan Tadic believes the first 30 minutes of Southampton’s performance against Arsenal can be used as a blueprint for the remainder of the campaign.
The attacker’s free-kick midway through the first half led to Petr Cech’s own goal at the Emirates as the Saints went ahead.
They were pegged back by Laurent Koscielny, before a controversial late penalty by Santi Cazorla kept the points in north London.
But Tadic says Southampton played their best football of the season in the early stages, and should look to replicate that form moving forward.
“The Premier League is really hard and it is difficult but I think the first 30 minutes [against Arsenal] was our best under our manager,” he told Soccer Saturday.
“We stretched them a lot and we caused them a lot of problems and I think this is how we should play because Arsenal are one of the best teams in England.”
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