The incident involved Norwich City’s Ryan Bennett, as the centre-back pushed Sanchez in the back near the touchline, sending the Chile global tumbling towards a camera and the hoardings.
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Wenger said afterwards that Cazorla had finished the match “on one leg” and said in his news conference ahead of Saturday’s victory over Sunderland that it was a possibility the former Malaga man would be out until March.
In fact, the Frenchman even went so far as to suggest Sanchez’s fall into the TV camera pit “could have killed him”. I think the camera position was absolutely risky.
Arsene Wenger’s side can not enter the pitch on Saturday thinking that all they need to do is be on the field and the game is won. “That injury can come from that as well”.
He added: “I don’t know”.
Bennett, 25, apologised for the incident after the 1-1 draw, insisting on Twitter that he had been trying to stop himself, rather than shove the Arsenal player. Arsène Wenger confirmed the worst fears of both the player and his club when he said that the lateral collateral ligament had been ruptured.
If it turns out that it does, Arsenal will miss out on an opportunity to win the most open Premier League in years, and it would seem like Arsene Wenger would have plenty of cause to pause and to consider his future. I don’t know if he needs an operation or if it will be the whole season. It was much better, but they remained always a threat.
There might be many players in the league who can do such a job, but a player who isn’t English could well be the answer to Arsenal’s problems.
“I ask my players to focus on tomorrow’s game, I didn’t ask the board anything, it’s not the board who buys the players”, Wenger declared.
Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce had seen his side win their previous two games heading into the clash in north London but defeat now leaves them back in the relegation places. “So let’s do that and hopefully we can get through”.
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“We have slightly helped and relieved the situation, but we are still in deep, deep relegation trouble that we have to make sure we get out of as quickly as we possibly can”.
