“We’ve just lost three games and that is always a very hard moment for the team”.
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Arsenal’s title challenge suffered another damaging blow after they squandered a lead against Swansea to lose 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday.
Paul Scholes doubts Arsenal “have the balls” to beat Leicester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City to the Premier League title.
“I’m never surprised by the criticism that comes”, Wenger told a press conference ahead of his side’s home game with Swansea City on Wednesday.
He was then asked how serious Cech’s injury is, and he replied: “I don’t know, we have to see”.
Arsenal looked unlikely to slip to a third loss in eight days in all competitions when Joel Campbell scored in the 15th minute. Now we are forced to have Mertesacker and Gabriel (our worst defenders) as the centre-back partnership in front of David Ospina.
Arsenal are chasing a first league title in 12 years but Wenger has urged his players to ignore title talk and focus on getting back to winning ways.
The former Gunner says it is Arsene Wenger, not Theo Walcott, who is to blame for the England man’s poor form. It’s a very disappointing game, and the players are very down.
Manchester United are at West Brom on Sunday, while champions Chelsea will be hoping to prolong their recent improvement with a home win over Stoke City on Saturday. Arsenal need a win to get back into the title race, while Swansea find themselves only three points above the relegation zone. I’m not in the mood to do that now.
Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla is set to miss the rest of the season after suffering an Achilles problem, Gunners boss Arsene Wenger revealed on Tuesday. It is a big disappointment for us to swallow this and we need to bounce back.
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Swansea announced in the build-up to the match that their head coach had been admitted to hospital with a lung infection. “He played against a very young left-back and I thought Welbeck could give him some problems with his runs behind”.
