On the other hand, the news of Aaron Ramsey’s return to fitness comes as a respite for the North Londoners who are already without Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Danny Welbeck, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Tomas Rosicky.
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The Gunners host Dinamo Zagreb in Group F on Tuesday, needing victory to keep alive their qualification hopes. “We have lost a player of quality for a while but we know that can happen”, he added.
“If you ask my deep gut feeling, I want to stay in the Champions League”, Wenger said.
“We missed open goal chances too. I believe West Brom did fight with 100 per cent commitment as well and you have to give them credit for that”.
“We landed a huge blow when we scored”. We have to come back quickly and focus.
However, they have returned to their winning ways, after beating NK Istra 1-0 before the worldwide break and Slaven 1-2 last Friday. But the point is that we shouldn’t be simplistic in our analysis of Arsenal and its elaborate series of crises.
“Our defending at that level was very, very poor”.
-Ozil now has 11 assists in the Premier League this season, five more than any other player.
“I’m always a bit cautious”, he said. “We’ll know tomorrow (Sunday)”.
When everything is clicking for Arsene Wenger’s men they are among the most impressive sides in the Premier League.
Pulis, by contrast, could take satisfaction from the defensive resilience of his Albion players as well as a “superb” display by Irish winger James McClean who gave the Arsenal full-back Hector Bellerin an awkward afternoon.
“Let’s just try to win our last two games”.
A 17-year-old January signing from Legia Warsaw, Bielik may not be the ideal solution for Arsenal fans, but that won’t stop Wenger.
“For my part, I would not explain our defeat by that”. We are all down.
“When you are on the pitch, you are on the pitch”.
His players did not deal with Chris Brunt’s free-kick into the box for James Morrison’s equalising goal and then conceded again through Arteta’s own goal, undoing the advantage given them by Olivier Giroud’s header. With Alexis Sanchez in and out of form, it is nice to see the German playmaker show the kind of form that demanded a fee of over forty million pounds.
“Even if we had beaten Bayern, we would be in a position where we have to beat Olympiakos, if we beat Zagreb at home”. The lads are very pleased. They deserve it for the effort they’ve put in.
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“There’s been games here this year where we’ve been disappointed because we’ve lost”.
