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We asked for your thoughts after Saturday's Premier League game between Arsenal and Leicester

Here are some of your comments:

Arsenal fans

John: Arsenal made it difficult for themselves, but in the end, they showed their title credentials.

Stephen: Arsenal really missing Martin Odegaard's chasing, energy and intellect. Thomas Partey just isn’t an intelligent enough player - and reliably will gift the opposition chances in every match.

Chris: A dominant Arsenal display in the first half and at the end. But still there questions as they took their eye off the ball after the break and didn’t take their chances to close it before injury time. A shaky start to the second half. Despite conceding four, Mads Hermansen was a rock who stopped it being an absolute rout and Leicester showed character.

Martin: The Arsenal of latter Wenger, Emery and early Arteta years would have lost that game from 2-0 up. They did well to pile the pressure on Leicester until the goal came. Champions find ways to win when it looks dire, but we can't afford second halves like that against the big teams.

Leicester fans

Max: A poor first half but much better in the second. I feel something strange is going on regarding decisions already. The strange VAR decision against Palace and then here with the seven added minutes! Also, Calafiori not getting a second yellow card. This will sound 'salty' but keep an eye out for poor decisions against Leicester in future games.

James: While Leicester nearly came away with a point they barely deserved, they once again showed that they can be competitive. However, the lack of strength in depth (e.g. Raheem Sterling vs Jordan Ayew, no contest), and poor tactics by the Foxes was their downfall in the end. Steve Cooper is running out of time. Defeat at home by Bournemouth, and that may be that.

Patrick: World class keeping! Five shots on target and two goals and only 25% possession! More possession might have equalled more goals. Plenty to rejoice over everything taken into consideration. However, how did seven minutes of extra time become 13? VAR again!! I can understand if Cooper blows his top again.

Nathan: It's time for Cooper to go - we need someone that is going to play for the win not play just to survive. It was a poor decision signing him in the first place.

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Former Northern Ireland manager Ian Barraclough believes Leicester will "take real good heart" from their performance at Arsenal.

The Foxes' were on course to take a point away from the Emirates before two injury-time goals helped the Gunners to all three points. Speaking to BBC Radio Leicester's When You're Smiling podcast after the game, Barraclough said: "They'll be sore at the moment, it will be hurting for sure because they got themselves back into the game that many would feel they didn't have any right to be involved in.

"Two good goals brought them back into the game and you go into the 90th minute and they had defended every set piece that had been thrown at them.

"To have fought their way back into it, to have been a little bit braver and a bit cleaner with their passing to get themselves higher up the pitch and back into the game - they'll take real good heart from it."

Despite the full time emotions being of disappointment, Barraclough believes there were lots of positives to come from the game: "When the emotions die down from it all, the management and coaching staff will accentuate the positives that have happened.

"For me it's a case of saying listen we've gone toe-to-toe with I think the best in the Premier League this season so far, and we can come out with a lot of confidence."

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Leicester manager Steve Cooper said he would not shy away from criticism after Foxes fans were heard chanting "Cooper, sort it out" and "this is embarrassing" during Tuesday's EFL Cup victory at Walsall.

At half-time on Saturday, it looked like being another damaging afternoon for Cooper and his players, who trailed 2-0 and had offered minimal resistance against a dominant Arsenal side.

The second half was a totally different story.

James Justin equalised just over a minute after the restart before equalising with a stunning volley from Wilfred Ndidi's left-wing cross, his swerving shot striking the inside of the post on its way in.

Goalkeeper Mads Hermansen produced a string if magnificent saves towards the end of the game, denying Leandro Trossard, Kai Havertz, Riccardo Calafiori and second-half Arsenal substitute Ethan Nwaneri.

But something had to give and the Gunners eventually broke Foxes' hearts when Ndidi inadvertently turned in Trossard's close-range effort, with Havertz completing the scoring five minutes later.

Cooper will be proud of his players once the dust settles on this one - but that may take some time.

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Leicester boss Steve Cooper, has been speaking to BBC Match of the Day following today's defeat: "Tough one to take to be fair. Proud of the second half performance particularly. If it's a team that's not together, they can really go under after the first-half but it was great to score as early as we did in the second half and then go to 2-2.

"You know you are going to suffer here at time against a really good time like Arsenal at the Emirates but I felt like we were coping really well. To have that deflection for the third goal is just a bit of where our luck is but then the fourth goal is against the run of play.

"It's another loss and the results always write the narrative but there was so much to be positive about, particularly in the second half and we've got to try and keep going keep capitalising on what is going okay and just improve."

On what was said at half-time: "Just to stick with it to be honest. It was disappointing with the way we concede the goals because they are typical Arsenal goals with the cut-backs, we've done a lot of work trying to deal with that.

"I don't want to make the headlines around referees because I'm trying to take responsibility for a team trying to do better in the Premier League but it's a clear foul on Jamie Vardy for the first goal and the left-back [Riccardo Calafiori] has to get sent off for a second yellow but there's so much more we could say, the whole game knows but I'm not going down that road today."

On James Justin's second goal: "Great goal, straight off one of the moves that we work on in terms of where we want people to get the ball. It's a brilliant finish. Good to see that come off. Just a pity that it didn't mean more in the game."

On Mads Hermansen's saves: "We're really happy with Mads, he's a talented young goalkeeper and he is on the right path. He didn't deserve to concede that third goal with the deflection but it can happen unfortunately. He didn't deserve to concede a goal like that, neither did the rest of the guys.

"You have to stand up, you have to keep believing in what you are doing. These are the demands of the Premier League. We fell on the wrong side today."