Arsenal are now without a win in their first two home games of the new Premier League season after drawing 0-0 with Liverpool at the Emirates on Monday.
Liverpool should have been ahead during what was a dominant first-half performance, but Arsenal improved after the break and will feel that they deserved at least a share of the spoils in London.
Liverpool had a half-chance inside the opening two minutes when Emre Can found Christian Benteke inside the Arsenal box, but the Belgian forward could only drag his attempt wide of the post.
Liverpool’s dominance continued late in the half as Coutinho rattled the post with a rasping strike, but somehow Arsenal held on in the first 45 minutes.
The visitors started the second half as they finished the first, in control of the possession and looking the more threatening in the final third.
The first opportunity of the second period fell to Arsenal, however, with Olivier Giroud, on his 100th Premier League appearance, having a close-range effort deflected over the crossbar by Martin Skrtel.
Arsenal managed to gain control of the ball as the match approached the hour mark, but the home side were still struggling to create clear chances.
Skrtel was then forced to poke a low Oxlade-Chamberlain cross wide of his own post as he came close to scoring a fourth own goal in his last three Premier League games against Arsenal.
Arsenal continued to force the issue late on, with four additional minutes added and Oxlade-Chamberlain and Gabriel Paulista coming close. Neither side could make the breakthrough, however, as the points were shared in an entertaining goalless draw.
The result has left Liverpool third in the table, while Arsenal sit ninth.
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