Wenger: I will take positives from our defeat
Dear Supporter,
I think what is the most difficult thing to take from Saturday's defeat against Manchester United is that we were the better team and we lost the game. We were in front and had a chance to score the second goal and got punished on two goals. It is beyond belief.
Overall I would like to keep the positives of the game because I believe that we can deal well with the disappointment of losing the game. We have a great future and we can be a real force. But of course, it's difficult to accept going home from Old Trafford without any points.
Football is unpredictable but I believe in this team. We lack some calmness, maturity and experience at times because we conceded goals at a time when there was no need to panic. We assessed two situations badly.
In the first one, Wayne Rooney was in no position to score, so there was no need to panic. And on the second one as well when Abou Diaby scored an own goal. There was not one player of Man United around our players. So it's a lack of communication and still a little bit I feel in these situations that we might be lacking a little bit of experience.
Even so we had opportunities to finish the game off. We had the chances to kill the game off at 1-0 and even had a chance to come back to 2-2.
As you would have seen, I was sent from the touchline at the end of the game because I kicked a bottle of water when Robin van Persie's goal was disallowed. The fourth official called the referee and sent me off.
I didn't kick the bottle because I thought William Gallas was not offside in the build-up to the goal, but because I was disappointed. I thought we had equalised.
Thanks for your continued support.
Arsène Wenger
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Wenger: I will take positives from our defeat
Dear Supporter,
I think what is the most difficult thing to take from Saturday's defeat against Manchester United is that we were the better team and we lost the game. We were in front and had a chance to score the second goal and got punished on two goals. It is beyond belief.
Overall I would like to keep the positives of the game because I believe that we can deal well with the disappointment of losing the game. We have a great future and we can be a real force. But of course, it's difficult to accept going home from Old Trafford without any points.
Football is unpredictable but I believe in this team. We lack some calmness, maturity and experience at times because we conceded goals at a time when there was no need to panic. We assessed two situations badly.
In the first one, Wayne Rooney was in no position to score, so there was no need to panic. And on the second one as well when Abou Diaby scored an own goal. There was not one player of Man United around our players. So it's a lack of communication and still a little bit I feel in these situations that we might be lacking a little bit of experience.
Even so we had opportunities to finish the game off. We had the chances to kill the game off at 1-0 and even had a chance to come back to 2-2.
As you would have seen, I was sent from the touchline at the end of the game because I kicked a bottle of water when Robin van Persie's goal was disallowed. The fourth official called the referee and sent me off.
I didn't kick the bottle because I thought William Gallas was not offside in the build-up to the goal, but because I was disappointed. I thought we had equalised.
Thanks for your continued support.
Arsène Wenger
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it