Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker was left frustrated by their 2-2 draw with Liverpool.

Mertesacker admits Arsenal were not at their best at Liverpool on Sunday.

"If you remember last year we had a very different performance to what we had today," the defender told Arsenal Player. "We tried to stop Raheem Sterling going through on the back four with his speed. We didn't find our own game.

"We realised we had to stick together and find space [and knew] if we got chances in the second half we could have scored. We did and then we tried to defend in the last minute, which we did but not as good as I thought [we could have].

"Overall we have to take responsibility for our game - we want to dictate but we were on always on the back foot. I'm not really pleased with the performance but we take the point now and we're looking forward to December 26."