Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has defended his club’s decision to catch a 14-minute flight to Norwich ahead of Sunday’s Premier League clash, the Daily Express reports.
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Alexis Sanchez suffered a hamstring scare in the win over Dinamo Zagreb but the Chile star is likely to be involved, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is available after returning to action as a substitute in midweek.
These are not players who have the traditional academic education that we give now to the players at 15 or 16 – they have a physio every day.
The Gunners go into the game hoping to get their first Premier League win of November following a 1-1 draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Nov. 8 and Saturday’s 2-1 defeat away to West Bromwich Albion, that saw them drop to fourth in the table, two points adrift of leaders Leicester City. He finishes and you think, “He’s dead now”. “But then he recovers and gives 100 per cent again”. Jamie Vardy is a bit similar.
“It is all linked to a mixture of flexibility, the sense of how far you can push your body and the sensitivity of when you have to ease off on your bodyweight”. They go when they go. She said: ‘They appear to live in some kind of a bubble, entirely separate from the rest of us’. If he doesn ” t get there, after, he’s dead.
I’m a life-long Gooner so I’m used to being occasionally embarrassed by my team, but I prefer them to wait until after kick-off before humiliating their supporters. The way they play is fantastic to watch as a football fan. “After that we will look at his overall recovery as well, but overall when there are alarming signs we want to make the right decision at the right moment”, the Frenchman explained. “He’s not been injured and, the more you are injured, the more there is a chance to be injured again”.
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Neil added: “We will be regarded as one of the smaller teams in the league, but even when so-called bigger teams come to our place, they have been happy to sit behind the ball, soak up pressure and hit you on the counter attack and that sort of surprised me”.
