League clash with Chelsea sapped their momentum,
according to Aaron Ramsey.
Aaron Ramsey believes Arsenal paid the ultimate price for the
red card shown to Gabriel in their Premier League meeting with
Chelsea on Saturday.
The game at Stamford Bridge was level approaching half-time,
but an altercation between Chelsea striker Diego Costa and the
Brazilian centre-back resulted in the latter's dismissal as he
retaliated to his opponent's provactions with a kick.
In the second half the hosts took the lead as Kurt Zouma
headed home from a Cesc Fabregas free-kick, before Eden
Hazard wrapped up a 2-0 win with a stoppage-time strike after
Santi Cazorla had also been given his marching orders for
picking up two yellow cards.
Ramsey felt that, up to the first sending off, Arsenal had been
performing well and could have turned the home fans against
their side, who came into the game off the back of two
consecutive top-flight defeats, had the numbers remained level.
"We felt quite comfortable out there," Ramsey told Arsenal.com.
"They haven't had the best of runs of late and the more the
game went on, the more the crowd would have started to turn
and moan a bit.
"That set-piece has cost us but we tried our best out there and
we paid the price from the sending off in the end."
The result consigned Arsenal to a second consecutive defeat
after they went down 2-1 to Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions
League in midweek.
And the Welshman added that he is keen for them to bounce
back as quickly as possible.
"We're always going to create opportunities but we're just
disappointed because we had a bad result in midweek in the
Champions League," Ramsey added.
"We wanted to get back to winning ways and have a positive
game. We were doing that up until the sending off.
"I'm sure he'll learn from that and we have to move on and put
things right on Wednesday [against Tottenham].
"It's not good enough for a club like Arsenal to lose two games
in a row."
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