Wenger – Arsenal can’t compete for the title right now

Posted on November 05, 2012 by admin

Arsenal’s defeat at Old Trafford has left them nine points behind the new League leaders, and Arsene Wenger admits that they now have a mountain to climb if they are to compete with Man United, Chelsea and Man City in the race for the Premiership title.

He couldn’t give any excuse for Arsenal’s poor showing on Saturday and simply said that they came up against a much better team. “We were poor today defensively I think,”

“There’s no obvious reason for that apart from the fact that we didn’t start well and that Man United have quality up front. They score goals against everybody and were better than us. It’s as simple as that.

“I think today we were not good. At Man City, we played a 1-1. We had a good result and didn’t suffer from the comparison. Today, I just think at the moment we are not on full cylinders and we looked much more vulnerable defensively than we were at the start of the season.

“We have to show that the team can compete for the title. At the moment, you cannot say that because we are far away. But that’s what the target is until the end of the season.

“We’ve played many away games now in many difficult places. We’ve played at Manchester City, at Manchester United, at Liverpool and at Stoke. So we have many difficult away games. But we are very far behind now.”

November’s games now become crucial and we now have a demanding visit to Schalke, before facing Fulham, Tottenham and Montpellier at home. Let’s hope the team can pick themselves up quickly because another couple of defeats could see Arsenal even drop out of the race for fourth place, never mind the Champions League…..

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Wenger – Arsenal are much stronger than last season and ready to compete for trophies

Posted on August 13, 2012 by admin

The Gunners boss Arsene Wenger is convinced that Arsenal are in a much stronger position right now than they were at the beginning of last season, when they had hardly started doing any business in the transfer market (except for Gervinho) and were also set to lose two of their biggest stars.

This time around Wenger has already brought in Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud, who have had the benefit of pre-season with Arsenal, and also the arrival of the talented Spanish international Santi Cazorla, and Wenger thinks the squad is now ready to compete for trophies.

“We want to compete for honours and we have a desire to. We are up for it and what we want is to come out of the season and know we have given our best,” Wenger said.

“I feel we did that last year, finishing third with the start we had. The first target is to do as well as we can in every single game and see where we stand at the end of the season, but of course we want to fight for the championship.”

“We are in a much stronger position now because last summer we lost (Samir) Nasri and (Cesc) Fabregas, and on top of that we lost (Abou) Diaby and Wilshere (to injury). We lost four players at the start of last season and that is not the case this time.”

Arsenal had a dismal start to last season and you can practically feel the new-found confidence in today’s squad. All Gooners can now look forward to a bright start to the new season.

Come On You Gunners!!!!

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