Now, in a recent interview with The Athletic, Oxlade-Chamberlain has revealed the biggest difference in mentality between Liverpool and Arsenal.
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 30-year-old revealed that Leicester City’s Premier League triumph was the most disappointing 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.”