Furious Mikel Arteta closed his arsenal flops and accused them of missing the 'levels' to be a champion.
Bookies Paddy Power paid last night on a Liverpool title after the winner of Jarrod Bowen at the Emirates.
And Gunners -Baas Arteta smoked: 'I am very, very angry. I hope the team is angry. That was not nearly close to the levels that we have to touch to win a Premier League. “
Sub Myles Lewis-Skelly was also sent after a VAR review for stumbling Mohammed Kudus-Arsenal's fifth red card of the season.
Asked if the title race is over, Arteta admitted: “It's not in our hands.
“I am really irritated by the things that are in our hands and we did not do that as well as we could.
“We have to look in the mirror of what we can do better: the will, the desire and the way we want it.”
Prem leader Liverpool will become eleven points clearly with a victory in Manchester City today.
Injury-affected Arsenal only gathered two shots on goal yesterday after midfielder Mikel Merino got his first career start as a no. 9 after injuries to Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus.
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Arteta added: “Although we had 20 shots, I never had the feeling that we were on the standard and the level we needed. We never got a grip from the game.
“I refuse to blame the lack of strikers. I am talking about the standards of the players, including me.
“This level was not enough. You have to deliver and it must be with quality to break down a good team. “
The shock -worship ended the run of the Gunners of 15 unbeaten Prem games.
Skipper Martin Odegaard repeated the comments from Arteta and stated:
“The implementation was not good enough. It is a big blow, really disappointed.
“Players are missing, but we have players who are good enough here and are available.
“It wasn't good enough for the goal. It was also difficult with the red card. '
Asked if he chose the wrong team, Arteta replied: “I would do the same, but if you lose, you get wrong, the tactics, the intentions, everything.”
Lewis-Skelly's 73rd minute Red for half a trip on Kudus was upgraded from a first yellow after Var Peter Bankes Ref Craig Pawson convinced to view the pitchside monitor.
The Match Center of the PrEM confirmed VAR “considered it to deny an obvious target scores”.
Kudus said: 'I took the ball off and tried to get the shot off. If I was not stopped, I would go directly to the goal against the keeper.
Asked what needs to change between now and the visit on Wednesday to the third Nottingham Forest placed, Arteta added: “First of all suffering 24 to 48 hours, suffering and feeling the pain.
“Make sure we come back on Monday with bite and anger still in the stomach.
“Hopefully we have a positive response. We must understand that we must increase the level. '
Bowen, who scored his 50th Prem goal, said: “It was a beautiful ball in, I couldn't miss it.
“It was really important to win the game.”
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