Campbell signed for the north Londoners back in August 2011 yet has been sent out on loan to France, Spain and Greece despite starring in Brazil a year ago.
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Oxlade-Chamberlain was replaced after five minutes due to a hamstring problem and, Walcott, who came on in his place, went off after 19 minutes with a calf problem.
Carlos Carvalhal’s ambitious side are also only three points adrift of the play-offs in the English Championship and Scotland cap Wallace, who joined from Burnley during the summer, was delighted to play his part in the shock win over the Gunners. “I don’t want to put that label on them”, he said. I wanted to keep him here.
“We lost two players and after that I had Gabriel [Paulista] and [Nacho] Monreal on the bench but I couldn’t bring them on because I couldn’t afford to lose any more players”.
“I don’t know. This guy looks like he knows absolutely everything”, Wenger was quoted saying in Daily Star. He is a mixture of Walcott and Olivier Giroud.
“The home game here we went on the attack, played an open game and scored goals at the right time and showed character to come back. Walcott is more a runner”.
But Campbell is set to start for Wenger’s injury-hit team when they visit Swansea City on Saturday.
ARSENE Wenger blasted his young guns on Tuesday after they were dumped out of the Capital One Cup by Sheffield Wednesday.
Turning to injured midfielders Aaron Ramsey and Mikel Arteta and goalkeeper David Ospina, Wenger added: “It’s the same for them. I am amazed that he knows more than all our physios and all our doctors”, Wenger told press on Friday. We will find solutions and I have to find the right one. “It is like in life, why does he catch the flu and him not?” The Gunners are without eight key players and Verheijen believes that Wenger’s inability to assess fatigue among players leads to an accumulation of injuries. We all know who the top strikers in the world are. “You have to wait 48 hours for the scans to see how big the damage is”, Wenger said. It may be a possibility that Joel Campbell gets another chance to prove himself after struggling to impress so far in the red and white.
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“Now, he looks like he’s doing it every game so you have to give him credit”. That is part of the enjoyment.
