― Reuters picLONDON, April 22 ― Arsenal’s resurgent Alexis Sanchez scored twice to help ease their top-four jitters in a 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League at a less than full Emirates Stadium yesterday.
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“My message is to come and support the team”, added Wenger. If you love football, I think you’ll see quality football.
Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker has blamed Alexis Sanchez’s injury lay off for their slip up in the Premier League title race.
He said: “I am not intelligent enough to understand why they were empty seats”.
“We are in a position where it depends on us to finish in the top three but we want more and we have to fight to do that and if possible do more”, said Wenger.
“It was a hard situation but I felt we did well from the start by doing what we can do when we play forward, decisive and quick”.
“Of course we have regrets”, he said. We came out of West Ham and Crystal Palace thinking we had produced the quality and didn’t get the points. “It has been in other games as well where we did not always make the maximum points for the quality of our games”.
Tomorrow, Man City travel to Stoke who are in search of their highest ever EPL finish.
“I played for George Graham for eight years and by the end of that period we had heard all his rollockings, his team talks and everything, and it does get a bit stale”. “We had two draws when we should have won the game several times and when you do that you pay for it”.
Sunderland’s hopes of finding the net will again largely rest on top scorer Jermain Defoe’s shoulders after the England worldwide took his tally to 13 Premier League goals in last weekend’s 3-0 win at relegation rivals Norwich. Playing for Arsenal helps because all my team-mates help you improve and stand out. “It will have intensity and we have to prepare for that”.
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“Sometimes you need to step back and learn something out of it”, he said. I think this will impact their game here today since they are away from and their opposition are determined. “With players coming back, it is going to be good competition – that is what we play for”. We should have scored more but [at least] we didn ” t concede. Overall – particularly in the first half – I think he was exceptional.
