This is the first meeting between Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal since May 2000, a 3-3 draw at Highbury in the Owls’ penultimate Premier League game before relegation.
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“They are prepared, the preparation they have created will give them the confidence against Sheffield Wednesday and I’m confident they will play well”.
“We must wait on a few players but we know Turner, Lopez, Matias and Sougou will not play”.
“It’s nice to win this kind of game after a Champions League game”, Giroud said. I don’t think so any more but we have seen things in football that are less weird. Once you have that in the team, it is not easy to get it, but it shows the belief is there and then you need enough humility to keep it in there.
“We were in the game and we were pulling them back”.
French duo Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny headed Arsenal to a 2-1 victory over Everton by seizing on porous defending twice inside two minutes in rainy London on Saturday. “It’s only the 10 game in the league so we’ve got 28 to go, so it’s a bit early”, Giroud told the club’s website. The Gunners played three games in eight days last week and the Frenchman is likely to make wholesale changes to the squad against Sheffield Wednesday to give the first team members a rest ahead of the crucial battle away at Swansea City next weekend.
Everton defender Brendan Galloway was left frustrated that he didn’t find the back of the net and admitted that the Blues needed to be more clinical in front of goal against Arsenal on Saturday. Last season, he was settling in. He is a young man who has come into a very different game and he needs to understand the culture of the British game.
Wenger continued: “I really hope Mikel considers going into coaching”.
We should have a good chance to put that record right this evening but nothing should be taken for granted so a professional performance is needed if we want to book our place in the next round.
Giroud, 29, was cautious not to predict success, but revealed there is a new found resilience among the players which could help the club end their 12-year wait for the title.
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The match ended with a flurry and the visitors remained a chance. After 2-0 it is important not to concede at half-time, that is maybe the negative of the day as we got caught on the break just before half-time.
