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Mertesacker: Showing can help domestic push

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Arsenal FC's 2-0 win at AS Monaco FC may have been in vain but Per Mertesacker hopes the round of 16 second-leg performance will spur the Gunners to domestic honours.

Mertesacker looks to positives

Arsenal FC are out of the UEFA Champions League despite a 2-0 win at AS Monaco FC and Per Mertesacker hopes that the round of 16 second-leg performance will spur the Gunners the domestic honours.

The 3-1 first-leg deficit proved too much to overturn at Stade Louis II, but with Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-finals and on a fine late Premier League run, the Germany defender is accentuating the positives. "There was a mountain to climb but we showed a different face and that should give us confidence for the FA Cup and the league."

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