Wenger was at Wembley on Tuesday night as tributes were paid to those that lost their lives in the French capital on Friday evening.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has ruled out three key players from Saturday’s Premier League trip to West Brom.
The 30-year-old was visibly moved during the national anthems at Wembley as English fans joined in with La Marseillaise as the football world came together.
Wenger has admitted he didn’t recognise Koscielny at Wembley and will leave the centre-back out against West Brom this weekend if the defender feels he’s not ready to play. Obviously the same applies to Alexis Sanchez, and whether he is exhausted or not, Wenger won’t have much choice but to play him as none of Ramsey, the Ox or Ramsey are available to cover.
“Hector Bellerin is available again, but I believe Ramsey and Oxlade-Chamberlain should not be available”, Wenger said. “It was a huge shock for our country and our football”, the Frenchman told his weekly press conference. Why does this country get this kind of treatment?
“The way for us is to get on with life and respond in a positive way to the situation”.
Wenger said on Thursday that he was due to attend the game but was running late and watched the carnage unfold from his hotel room. I believe at the moment nobody in France has found an answer or a real explanation for what’s going on and why, because what was targeted was the way of life, basically. “In the end in the hotel we were quite secure, but the streets were empty, completely empty”.
“You have to trust politicians to make the right decisions to counter attack against that”. “I was more under shock than fearful”, he said.
While Wenger conceded that security at football matches was now “more of a question”, he said that the only way to respond to the attacks, claimed by Islamic State, was to go on living as normal. It’s more way of life that is targeted than any individual community.
“You could be scared because it was four different places attacked”. “I was on the plane back to France when it happened”.
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“I am more anxious that it could divide the society and create a few tensions inside the country that could damage the tolerant and multi-cultural society”.
