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Arsenal's Petr Cech says there is still plenty of room for improvement

Arsenal's Laurent Koscielny (right) and Petr Cech celebate victory over Southampton
Image: Petr Cech (L) and Laurent Koscielny celebate Arsenal's victory over Southampton

Petr Cech knows there is still more to come from Arsenal this season following Saturday's dramatic victory over Southampton.

The Gunners goalkeeper scored an unfortunate own goal to put Saints ahead in their Premier League clash at the Emirates Stadium before Arsenal captain and birthday boy Laurent Koscielny levelled with an acrobatic overhead kick.

Petr Cech can't prevent a Dusan Tadic freekick rebounding off his back and into the net
Image: Cech was unable to prevent a Dusan Tadic free-kick rebounding off his back and into the net

The game looked set to end all square until referee Rob Madley awarded an injury-time penalty to the hosts and Santi Cazorla scored from the spot to seal a 2-1 success.

The win gave Arsene Wenger's men back-to-back league victories either side of the international break, but Cech said: "I think we are not 100 per cent yet.

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Arsenal 2-1 Southampton

"Our game is not as fluent as it could be and it should be. But I think we are getting the results that we need and this is the most important sometimes when you are playing and you know not everything is happening the way you want, that you find a way to win games.

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Arsene Wenger was relieved that his Arsenal side managed to find a late goal against what he describes as a good Southampton side

"Obviously we did so, so we are happy with the three points and we go game by game and try to improve every day.

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"I think our reaction [to going behind] was very good, we got a goal back in the first half, we tried to push for the winning goal. It came in the last minute but I think we were aggressive and we were searching for it so in the end we probably deserved a little bit of luck back."

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