Wenger Pleased With Arsenal’s Emphatic Win

Wenger Pleased With Arsenal’s Emphatic Win

Arsenal’s 6-0 win over Lyon in the Emirates Cup on Saturday was an impressive display, one that will certainly send a message out to their title bid rivals.

Speaking on Arsenal.com, Wenger gave his views on the performance, his players and the upcoming game against Wolfsburg.


[All quotes are sourced directly from Arsenal.com]

On Arsenal’s win:

“It was a good, dynamic, collective performance where we could see that many players scored goals. Overall it’s in the continuity of what we did at the end of last season, and we’ve taken that form into pre-season as well. There’s a good team dynamic and we’ve shown again that we can score goals, which is what everybody expects from us.”

On The Gunners upcoming game with Wolfsburg:

“It will be a similar game again with a team who has good quality, They are one of the top teams in Germany and they are fighting against Bayern, and may even be at the same level. It will be a good test again.”

On Mesut Ozil:

“He missed the whole first part of the season last year and he came back to his best level in the second part of the season. Hopefully he can deliver a whole season now. He had a difficult start to the season but slowly, in the second part of the season, he won over our fans. Feeling the reaction now in the crowd, I feel that he has their support.”

On the race for next season’s Premier League title:

“Let’s be cautious on that front. We finished third in the league and won the FA Cup last season. That’s a good basis, of course. Our target is to do better. We know that we will put all of our effort in and that it will be very difficult because it will be a big challenge. We just want to focus on our quality. Top-level sport requires you to get the best out of your potential, so to achieve that it’s important that we focus on our own performance and do not worry too much about the others. We just have to focus on being as good as we can be.”

On his potential selection headache:

“On one side the questions in the press is, ‘How do you keep everybody happy?’, and on the other hand, one minute later they ask me, ‘Why don’t you buy any more players?’. So, if I cannot keep the ones I already have happy why should I buy more? I think our squad is well balanced quality wise and numbers wise because of the number of games we have we need everybody. Because it is a competition it is part of our job.”

Finally..

On Jack Wilshere:

“Wilshere is okay and will play tomorrow. I rested him today.”

On Petr Cech:

“Petr Cech will play tomorrow.”