Oxlade-Chamberlain reveals difference between Arsenal and Liverpool

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has identified the main distinctions between Liverpool and Arsenal.

Oxlade-Chamberlain departed the Arsenal for Liverpool in 2017 in a move reportedly worth £40 million where he went ahead to achieve great things.

After spending six years with the Anfield club, where he won the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, and League Cup, the Englishman departed for Turkish Super Lig team Besiktas.

Oxlade-Chamberlain recently discussed the largest attitude gap between Liverpool and Arsenal in an interview with The Athletic.

He said: “At Arsenal, we always went into those big games thinking, ‘This is going to be really tough’.

“That was the biggest difference at Liverpool, where, even in the first season (2017-18) when we were a bit of an unknown entity, there was this unbelievable complete and utter focus where there was nothing else happening but us winning the game. I don’t know why, but at Liverpool, the big games, we just knew we were going to win.”

Speaking about his time with Arsenal, Oxlade-Chamberlain said: “We won FA Cups, but we probably never achieved what we should have done.

“We had unbelievable quality. Football-wise we had everything we needed to do the business. We were just missing… Belief? Toughness? Ruthlessness? I don’t know. Maybe it was a bit of that.”

The Premier League title win by Leicester City, according to Oxlade-Chamberlain, was the most discouraging moment of his Arsenal career

He said: “We were top in January and the other so-called big teams weren’t doing well that year. But we dropped the ball in games we should have won.”