Unai Emery insists there remains room for improvement from his Arsenal side despite their comfortable Europa League win over Vorskla Potalva.
The Gunners raced into a four-goal lead as a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang double, a Danny Welbeck header and a tap-in from substitute Mesut Ozil set them up for a big win.
But Vorskla rallied and halved the arrears as Volodymyr Chesnakov pulled one back before Vyacheslav Sharpar scored with the final kick of the evening as the opening Group E clash ended 4-2.
Emery made eight changes from the weekend win at Newcastle as goalkeeper Bernd Leno was handed his debut.
The Spaniard also gave fellow summer signings Stephan Lichtsteiner and Lucas Torreira their first starts but, despite marking his first European game in charge of Arsenal with a win, he was left with some frustration.
âItâs our disappointment today,â he said of the two goals. âLittle by little we are conceding a few chances to the opposition, the same like in Newcastle.
âBut we need to continue to improve on this because in the last minute in Newcastle and again today in the last 20 minutes, we conceded two goals.
âOur challenge is to be competitive for 90 minutes of each match and this is one thing to improve.â
The late strikes also means that Arsenal are yet to keep a clean sheet in any of Emeryâs first five games.
âWe are speaking before each match to take a mentality of âdonât concede chances easilyâ,â he added.
âI think today is a good opportunity for not accepting goals, but the last 30 minutes, we needed to be better on this competitive aspect.â
Vorskla coach Vasyl Sachko conceded his team were second-best but is hopeful they took some lessons from the game.
âWe lost against a good team today, but itâs good experience for us,â he said.
âA few of the lads need to believe in themselves. Fate is what it is, and todayâs match shows us what weâre aiming for.
âWe stuck to our game plan for a long time, we were able to help each other out, the lads gave everything on the pitch.
âThey knew that we couldnât open ourselves up, because Arsenalâs attack is so quick.â
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