Alexandre Lacazette has described his Arsenal debut as a "rollercoaster ride" - but says he still needs to get used to the Premier League, reports The Mirror Sport.
Lacazette scored just 94 seconds into his first appearance in the English top flight, heading home from a Mohamed Elneny cross against Leicester on Friday night.
But Arsenal fans, nor Lacazette, could have expected what would follow.
Leicester twice took the lead before a sensational late turnaround at the Emirates, where Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud scored in the final 10 minutes to secure a 4-3 win.
“It was a rollercoaster ride but it went well,” Lacazette told Arsenal.com .
“We let in some goals we could have avoided but we'll work to ensure we don't concede any more like that during the season. Fortunately we ended the game on a high.
“I think it was still too early [to celebrate properly when I scored].
That's how it came about but I think it was perhaps too early to celebrate because we didn't know how the match was going to pan out.”
Lacazette insists that the free-flowing style of the Premier League caught him by surprise.
He believes that more fouls will have been given if the same game had been played in France - but he does not necessarily think that it is a bad thing.
“It was good,” he added. “Obviously I'm still getting used to the English game, the positives and negatives, shall we say, but I'm learning. It's interesting.
“Let's say the referee tends to let play continue... and you only really understand that when you experience it.
Not that it's a positive or a negative, it's just the way the game is and you get used to it. It's nice.
“It is different to the French league but I knew that already. It's up to me to adapt.”
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