“I’m very happy”, he told Arsenal Player.
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Arsenal have had a hard week with a 3-0 Capital One Cup defeat to Sheffield Wednesday and seeing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott join Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey, Tomas Rosicky, Danny Welbeck and Mikael Arteta on the injury list.
Arsenal now head to Munich on Wednesday to take on the German Champions, Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in the Champions League.
Wenger rejected criticism of Arsenal’s training methods after the London Colney treatment room became more crowded this week. We created chances, played the better football and then obviously we’re disappointed in the first two goals.
Arsenal came out in the second half and immediately showed a few improved play.
The Costa Rica worldwide has struggled to make an impact at Arsenal since his move to the club in 2011, sent out on loan to numerous clubs after his arrival.
“My short-term option is Campbell or get one more defensive midfielder in like [Mathieu] Flamini and put [Santi] Cazorla on the flank”, he explained. We will find solutions and I have to find the right one. I think he can be a big help for us, and he can play center forward as well don’t forget that.
“But, for me, it’s all about perception and we’re on a par, if not very close, to more illustrious teams in this league on vastly superior budgets to ourselves”.
Can Arsenal really win the Premier League title?
“They did it in winning 3-0 at Watford a fortnight ago and they did again in south Wales on Saturday, riding the difficulties of a close first half before pounding Swansea into the dirt”.
“There are no easy games in the Premier League”.
Giroud scored his sixth league goal of the season against Swansea on Saturday and has scored in his last three Premier League matches.
“I am pleased because we could keep a clean sheet during the hard moments of the game and you are never in a hurry to take too many risks going forward”.
Swansea manager Garry Monk added: “I m disappointed we lost the game”.
“Down there we did change it tactically but we’ve achieved those results on different merits and different ways of playing”.
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“The game could have been different, but we were not able to put the chances away, so it’s a disappointing final result”.
