‘Knackered’ Tierney happy to get 90 minutes under his belt
Arsenal left-back Kieran Tierney had been out of action for over a month with injury but made his return for Gunner’s game against Manchester City.
The Scotland international admitted he found his return to action against
Manchester Cityon Sunday physically difficult, but above all, he was happy to be back after missing five weeks of action for the Gunners.
Tierney
, who struggled to cope with Riyad Mahrez early on before improving as the game went on, spoke after the match of the challenge of getting his fitness back up to the necessary level.
“I was just knackered!”
Tierney told
Arsenal’s official websiteafter taking in his first 90 minutes in five weeks
,
“Yeah, it was a tough game and I wasn't sure if I was going to get the full game, but I did. It's 90 minutes under my belt and I'm happy for that and happy that the manager gave me the chance again.”
Tierney added on coming unstuck against the Blues
: “Against a team like City you can't afford to make the start we made in the first five or 10 minutes or they're going to punish you.
“It's hard because nobody was planning to not start well, so it's hard to say exactly what it was but it was just something that can happen against a top team and they punished us for it.
“We always believed that we could get back in it and we had chances and some parts of the game where we were doing really well and we were unlucky not to get a goal.”
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