'We were comfortable': Aaron Ramsey blames Gabriel red card for Arsenal defeat to Chelsea

Aaron Ramsey is confident Arsenal will respond

AARON RAMSEY insists Arsenal were in a comfortable position before Gabriel's red card turned yesterday's defeat to Chelsea in their favour.

 

Moments before half time, the Brazilian defender was sent off by referee Mike Dean after kicking out at Diego Costa.

The pair had squared up to each other after an incident in the penalty box and were both booked before Gabriel's naive reaction to Costa's antagonism. 

After the break, Chelsea made the most of their man advantage to score two second half goal thanks to Kurt Zouma and Eden Hazard.

But Ramsey believes Arsenal's game plan was working out well before the dismissal.

 

He told Arsenal Player: "We felt quite comfortable out there [until the first red card].

"[Chelsea] 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.

"But it’s hard when you go down to 10 men. 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.

"We’re just disappointed because we had a bad result in midweek in the Champions League.

 

"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.

"It’s not good enough for a club like Arsenal to lose two games in a row. Hopefully now we can put things right on Wednesday.

"It will be a feisty game with hopefully some goals in our favour."