LONDON // Arsene Wenger blamed bad luck after Arsenal dropped two costly points in the Premier League title race following a dramatic finale to their 1-1 draw against Liverpool.
The Gunners - now six point points behind leaders Manchester United having played the same number of games - had plenty of possession and hit the bar in the first half through Laurent Koscielny.
However, just like in the previous two home draws with Sunderland and Blackburn Rovers, they also lacked a cutting edge in attack.
Then, deep into eight minutes of added time, Robin van Persie netted a penalty which looked to have sealed victory.
Liverpool, though, snatched a point from the spot with the final kick of the match after Emmanuel Eboue pushed Lucas.
Wenger must now lift his battle-weary squad for Wednesday night's north-London derby at Tottenham Hotspur.
"We conceded a penalty after 11 minutes when the referee said there was eight minutes of injury time. I don't see where those three minutes came from, and it was no penalty," said Wenger, who confronted Andre Marriner, the referee, and his assistants as they left the pitch.
"We have been badly done [by] in the two games here," Wenger said. "Against Sunderland we scored a regular goal and were not given a penalty that was 100 per cent, then today we got caught back like that.
"It is a period where we have not the biggest luck. It was a difficult game against a Liverpool team who basically only defended.
"We are on a 15-game unbeaten run, but recently we have not taken enough points."
For Liverpool's manager, Kenny Dalglish, there was a sense of satisfaction after a battling display which built on the 3-0 home win over Manchester City.
"I don't think there's any team anywhere that's shown the same attitude and commitment that our team showed today," said the Scot.
"Losing Fabio Aurelio early on, putting a 17-year-old on at left-back, losing our captain, having a right-back at only 18 with his second game, we have lost our centre-forward, we've lost a goal and eight minutes into injury time they still didn't want to accept that we're going to get nothing from the game.
"You can't speak any higher about them than that."
Earth under attack: Cosmic impacts throughout history
- 4.5 billion years ago: Mars-sized object smashes into the newly-formed Earth, creating debris that coalesces to form the Moon
- 66 million years ago: 10km-wide asteroid crashes into the Gulf of Mexico, wiping out over 70 per cent of living species – including the dinosaurs.
- 50,000 years ago: 50m-wide iron meteor crashes in Arizona with the violence of 10 megatonne hydrogen bomb, creating the famous 1.2km-wide Barringer Crater
- 1490: Meteor storm over Shansi Province, north-east China when large stones “fell like rain”, reportedly leading to thousands of deaths.
- 1908: 100-metre meteor from the Taurid Complex explodes near the Tunguska river in Siberia with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima-type bombs, devastating 2,000 square kilometres of forest.
- 1998: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 breaks apart and crashes into Jupiter in series of impacts that would have annihilated life on Earth.
-2013: 10,000-tonne meteor burns up over the southern Urals region of Russia, releasing a pressure blast and flash that left over 1600 people injured.
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What are NFTs?
Are non-fungible tokens a currency, asset, or a licensing instrument? Arnab Das, global market strategist EMEA at Invesco, says they are mix of all of three.
You can buy, hold and use NFTs just like US dollars and Bitcoins. “They can appreciate in value and even produce cash flows.”
However, while money is fungible, NFTs are not. “One Bitcoin, dollar, euro or dirham is largely indistinguishable from the next. Nothing ties a dollar bill to a particular owner, for example. Nor does it tie you to to any goods, services or assets you bought with that currency. In contrast, NFTs confer specific ownership,” Mr Das says.
This makes NFTs closer to a piece of intellectual property such as a work of art or licence, as you can claim royalties or profit by exchanging it at a higher value later, Mr Das says. “They could provide a sustainable income stream.”
This income will depend on future demand and use, which makes NFTs difficult to value. “However, there is a credible use case for many forms of intellectual property, notably art, songs, videos,” Mr Das says.
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