‘We have made mistakes that are difficult to explain’
Arsene Wenger is short of explanations following Arsenal’s second straight away defeat in the Premier League.
In both games, Wenger’s men snatched an early lead which promised a commanding display for the rest of the match.
But on neither occasion did the Gunners avoid digging their own grave as they surrendered their advantage in rueful fashion.
As if last week’s late collapse which saw Fulham score twice to win 2-1 was not enough, Arsenal fell to a dramatic 3-2 defeat at Swansea today – conceding the game’s winner only seconds after leveling matters at 2-2.
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The north Londoners are struggling and worried is their manager who has expressed his concerns over referee decisions and his side’s below-par defensive performance.
“I still don’t understand where the referee found the penalty [for Swansea’s equaliser], then we defensively made some mistakes that we should not have done.” Wenger said.
“When it was back at 2-2 we knew we could score a third but it was important not to make a mistake. But in the last games we have made mistakes that are difficult to explain. It is unbelievable, it happened at Fulham the same and again today.”
The Frenchman also chose to label the Gunners’ recent failures as merely ‘coincidences’ which have come against his side.
“Coincidences are always against us and it is difficult to understand what is going on. I don’t know, I feel we are a bit too nervous. We cannot panic every time they have the ball in the final third of the pitch. We have to show more composure and ambition. I think we panicked a bit too quickly today. ” Wenger said
“It is always a concern but on the other hand there is a good spirit in the side and a desire to do well. But we have dropped six points in a row now that we should not have.”
I’m following the news to hear u that u fucking resign, its better we start over now, im sick of seeing this old man fucking up the club, please dont tell me what he did in the past im not intrested…
Wenger lost it somewhere in 2006/2007 and we have almost become used to his vision of what Arsenal should be.Second best but profit making ! In effect he has become bigger than the club. I dont want to watch average players who earn 80 K per week fuck around anymore. The second and third goals were actually a disgrace. Kos was unlike him at fault but what about BFG not even botherring to track back cause in his opinion it was off-side ? We not gonna make top four, best is to start moving towards someone who actually has a vision for the club and not blinded by ego. We gonna lose some good players like RVP and sooner than later OX cause they want to be first rate and Kroenke wants to make money. Mutually exclusive situation Im afraid. And Wenger sais he cant find players that would imprve hs squad ? Ha ha, did he notice some of the opposition players today ? Well done Swansea
I guess mistakes being ‘difficult to explain’ is the reason he never does anything about them and they go on happening, match after match. It’s a pretty damning confession, in a way.
Wenger also said the defeat happened in ‘special circumstances’. As he also seems to say this after every defeat, I don’t think something that happens with such regularity can be defined as ‘special’.
GET RFD OF THAT WANKER RAMSEY AND THAT OTHER PILE OF SHIT WALCOT
There is a perfectly good explanation and its really quite simple and that is our manager is to blame for everything. He has signed crap last summer and this is the result of it. Benayoun is utterly useless as is Walcott and Arshavin and yet he still plays the latter two players EVERY game. We make defensive errors because the manager does not understand the basic concepts of defending like concentration, positioning, reading the game etc. Although Wenger blames everyone except his useless players and himself the buck stops with him. I hope that Arsenal fail to qualify for the Champions League because they do not deserve it and the Arsenal fans are lumbered with a manager who puts profit before success and a board looking to line their pockets. I WANT Wenger to fail – he just makes me sick having to listen to him, such an unambitious bad LOSER.
He bitched about the penalty too. FFS, get some fucking ambition Arsene Wanker and stop ruining our club with your top 6 is amazing dribble. I think it really is time to say bye.
It is time for money greedy Wenger to leave before completely destroying a great football club like Arsenal.
To be fair, I don’t think Wenger is “money greedy.” Otherwise, he would’ve left for REAL a few years ago.
He’s just STUBBORN to admit that it is impossible and unrealistic to compete with the BIG boys without investing/re-investing in GOOD players.
Dont talk crap Jose. Wenger is second only to Mancini in salary and he could make the money he spends go a lot further.If you gave Redknap or Moyes or one or two other managers the money Wenger has we would be top three. Wenger is harvesting some dismal decisions over the last four to five years. We need and have needed someone new for some time. Arsenal needs to competing for the EPL not just top four.
No one was talking crap graeme.
Wenger is stubborn and delusional, but definitely not “money greedy.”
I don’t think he deposits all the alleged transfer kitty promised or allocated by the GREEDY Board into his own Swiss Bank account.
The only mistake that has been made is that after 7 seasons of doing shit all, you are still the manager.
You buy the shittest of them all and then keep faith in them, even when they continue to do shit.
He needs to resign because the board isn’t going to sack him due to his stingyness. They will keep their money.
Then get rid of the crap and always injured players like Arshavin, Rosicky, Bendtner, Squillaci, Chamakh, Almunia, Denilson, DIaby, Walcott, Djourou and buy some decent players.
Buy the people that are already proven, or just about to hit their prime.
Players like Huntelaar, Cavani, Gourcuff, Goetze, Hazard, Abidal. People who will make an instant impact.
Someone please start a facebook group so that we can get this man to get sacked, mine has been hacked so I haven’t made a new one. Maybe if we manage to get around 100,000 we will be heard.
WENGER OUT!
Max
He is hidng his foolish ideas by complaining refereeing all d time wt a micerable time 4 our club lost all d faith in ds man
Just to say,
If anyone does make a facebook group, please send me the link!
Also, for the people that disliked my comment, please tell me why you think I am wrong. Why does Wenger not deserve to get sacked (also please do not bring up what he has done before, it’s 7 years ago.)
We like in the present, talk about the present, or the near past (2 years ago max) and not 7 years ago.
Difficult to explain? Really?
It is obvious our defence are playing IMPROVISED without training strategies when they are healthy.
Wenger is reluctant to utilize the expertise of defensive guru like Dixon and Keone when they are available as Defence coaches.
Even Szesney was affected based on his out-of-bound goalkicks and the out-of-position third goal he conceded.
It’s just getting boring now.
He should have been fired on 1st September after the car crash of the summer window.
Who’s going to fire him though? He headhunter his boss! What a total farce and shambles our club now is.
The guys at Arsenal Action are right. We will have to push him out as fans, no one else will.
The problem was in midfild defence
Wts he thnkng by gvng chance 2 arshavin again nd again
two comments made in the past six months have been nagging at me every time we play like we did.Fabregas said he felt as a captain he could no longer motivate the players(read between the lines of that one)and Nasri saying he felt de-motivated at Arsenal because there was no -one pushing him for a starting spot.These comments show there are major problems with attitude and motivation at Arsenal which immediately need to be fixed.We had 5 or 6 players out there who have captained their country’s ,we should NOT capitulate to teams like Swansea so easily.We will lose Robin at the end of the season if this mediocrity carries on.One of the worst things that happened for Arsenal last year was Pat (sychophant)Rice staying on,it needs a drastic shake up behind the scenes to rid of this complacency.Buy winners,we miss Vermaelen more than anyone,for me one of the best defenders in the world.Ramsey had a poor game but I believe he is a quality player,Walcott and Arshavin are being carried in every game,Djourou wouldn’t get in 75% of premierships starting elevens,Mertesacker ?? 80 odd caps for Germany? it beggars belief.Feel sorry for Koscielny as I believe he will be an excellent player,as will Miguel although he struggled today.This season is a write off ,the best we can hope for is 5th,or 6th.January window will hold no answers,re;Wengers negative attitude towards it.
Wenger, I find it difficult to explain why you bought Park in the first place….to warm the bench?
Do not get rid of Ramsey. He is just having a spell of bad form. I do think he needs to be benched for a couple of games though. Definitely get rid of arshavin, Chamakh, Djourou, and Diaby. These players WOULD NOT get into the Swansea team that just beat us. Any team, Chelsea, Man U, even Barca would be in the same position as us if they sold their best players and replaced them with cheap replacements. Im not condoning that we make ourselves bankrupt by spending too much on overated players but when Liverpool received £50 million for Torres they immediately spent it all. why cant we follow suit when we sell our best players. Many other teams also do this.
Any fan that says “stop moaning, or have faith” is blind. Cant they see the only winners are the arsenal board. They have no ambition or drive. They only want to fatten their pockets. The c_nts will jump ship once arsenal are out of the top four and are not making any more money for them.
Wenger is the victim of his own success. He achieved champions league football consecutively for so many years always making a profit. He got too high and mighty and thought he was better than he actually appears. Wenger is a sore loser and cannot admit to his own or his team’s mistakes. With tottenham gaining momentum and teams like Chelsea,Liverpool,and City always spending i would of thought it be obvious that we had to follow suit to stand any chance of fighting for a top four finish. Park?? Chamkh on a free?? Benayoun on loan?? What the Duck!!!
Arsene Whinger is paid 7 million to oversee the building and the performance of this team/squard an amount we can only dream about.We have been treading water for years now,other clubs have caught on to Arsenal.A club whose only ambition appears to be finishing in the top four.A disaster waiting to happen,maybe that’s what needs to happen for everyone to wake up and see what’s go on at Arsenal.I hope this doesn’t need to happen but something needs to happen.We the paying fans do not have a serious voice that board will listen to.AFFA!!!
why stick the blame on wenger…. in terms of the players that were bought in… i think that has more to do with the board than him.
b-ray max…..w….r!
lol… idk why you’re gettin’ angry wit’ me… i gave that opinion because i do not believe that wenger would bring success to arsenal… only for him to then try an’ starve us of it… it doesn’t make any sense to me… i’m not sayin’ he has no part in what is goin’ on atm… he is the manager after all… but he doesn’t make all of the decisions at the club (player transfers in particular)… i feel it has more to do with the board than him.
Why cant you people in london dont make a noise at emirates stadium to show yr frastration to the arsenal body. Where is the supporters body guys. Ramsey and ashavin cost us e gam
I backed u on this 1 Mashumba the people who actually goes to the game should voice there concern, but as soon as Arsene wins 1 game they find some coffee to drink and talk bull shit, look at Steve Kean at Blackburn beat Man U at Old Trafford and received a death treat, but all we do is bank on Arsene legacy Invincible and Emirates Stadium, business over football, no matter what you do wegner i will always hate you, look at the average Swansee team who out played your team, i agree they can pass and run other than that Wegner you are a laughing stock, loosing 7 out of 21 games and still in charge. It’s obvious your are sleeping with somebody at the club, ridiclous
I think there was nothing difficult to explain. A team of rosiscky, benayoun, merta-sucker, arshavin, miquel played out of position playing at the same time is a recipe for another 8-2. Wenger is taking the team down with him and his dead wood.
Too many players injured in the team for too long and the dead wood won’t help. Wenger just shut up and get out!
Why the f*ck do you field Benayoun and leave Rosicky on the bench????He was a stimake from the word go.always a pace behind and poor tracking, did not even help Song. Ramsey is overrated, i dont see why he is always in such a position. Arshavin…where were you????Maybe looking for your footing since one foot is already out the door…Wenger you stupid line-up costed us dearly and your underestimation for Swansea saw us loose 3 points. You need either to buy or say by by…damn idiot. You say we have quality…WHERE THE F@CK IS THE QUALITY WHEN WE LOOSE LIKE THIS YOU IDOIT??????????????
Every day excuses oooh referee ,referee referee excuses only true is that referee was fair but your team is poor and lack of plan B arsenal is overrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Wegner you are waiting for the summer the kick Arshavin, Rosicky, Chamack, Park, Denilson, Bendthner, Vela, Dojouru, Squid, almunia, Diaby, Mannone, Gibbs, fabianski and all the other useless cunt you breast feeding, but the bad news is no club is intrested in these useless fuckers, you would have to live with them. look on the amount of useless players at the same club, this is a football disgrace….
Complainant. Go home and do your home work. Stop nose diving. Discuss issues that concerns you. You ‘ve made us FANS to be speechless b/4 other clubs. You will price every player in the market but cannot buy even a quality one. Mancity even in their excess, they still need De Rossi, Hazzard. U know Arshavin is under performing but u stil play him.what result do u espect? If u are tired u can leave. Please don’t ruin this club. Millions of people world wide love this club.
Problem with this idiot, Wenger, is in not understanding the team’s real problems. He keeps blaming misfortunes, january transfer window, referees, fifa fnancial regulation the influence of tv on football and God knows what for the poor performances. And to think we have big next sunday with that trash in the team makes me shudder.
guys d problem of arsenal iz mr wenger nt d board,cause d board those nt impose certain players on him:NO.d bad news iz he’s jst managing underperforming players dat can never even play in arsenal history.Poor wenger i hate u coz u r never serious in signing gud players nowadays.jst cheap articles.
Pls wenger should resign,he cann’t win any tin 4asarnal,he have lost it all.kroenke and his greedy board should sell their stake and go or they will die 4their wickedness,all gooners should make their voices know or prostest 2remove bad men 4rm d board and wenza.
Yet we keep making the same mistakes Wenger, your the manager sort it out
“WAH WAH WAH WAHH WAH, WE LOST 1 GAME SO I’M GONNA SPIT MY DUMMY OUT WAH WAH.”
And you lot say the city fans are a fickle bunch. Not so long ago you were all singing Wengers praise.
A few facts that you babies need to realise.
1. The run of injuries to defenders are extremely unfortunate. Like the man says, you can’t have 100 left, right or centre backs.
2. No other manager can or has done what he has with the amount of money he has spent, stabilising the club while bringing success.
3. Even if Arsenal do get another manager, do you think the board will just allow him to spend spend spend? NO because the ethos of the club stems from the very top so THAT is the reason AW won’t spend like all the other clubs which are in debt.
4. Stupid decisions have cost us many points, today included.
5. You ALL with rue the day Wenger quits.
So cry more you bunch of success spoilt whiners (success that AW brought us btw, but hey he’s somehow turned into a fool).
Me? I support AFC through think n thin.
P.S. (Sorry for the tone of the post but for goodness sake, take every factor into consideration and think for YOURSELF and not how the media tells you to before acting like spoilt little rich girls).
Your summary missed out a few vital points,
1) inevitable 60th minuit sub
2) one and only formation
3) constantly playing players who are off form
4) playing players out of position
5) the years waiting for prodject youth to colapse
6) buying players for comercial value rather than strentherning team
7) buying cheap alternatives when we know money is available
8) waiting till the end of tranfer window and missing targets
9) constant lies to fans (most annoying one) judge me at end of the season, we did but it didn’t matter.
10)being the last person always to realise when there is a problem area.
should i carry on, or are there enough starting points here!
To put it into perspective…..Our missing players:
Sagna
Jenkinson
Vermaelen
Gibbs
Santos
Diaby
Wilshere
Arteta
Coquelin
(Gervinho)
Give…..Arsene……A…..Break.
la misma puta storia , ya stoy arto d purars pinchis mamadas con ste puto tecnico d mierda , porq PUTAS NO RENUNSIAS Y DEJAS STE GRAN CLUB .
Y La puta junta directiva q sije creyendo en te stupido ,
sell
arshavin d mierda
dijoru
almunia
benayu
diaby
song
rosisky
denilson
fabiasky
bennert
ir y comprar gujadores q sepan loq es jugar en el arsenal
lukaspodosky
montolivo
alex
edin hazard
cabani
diego lopez (gk)
y muchos mas q hay ahi en ste mundo del fut…..
porq stas si son putadas
I love it when someone claims we are gonna regret it when Wenger leaves,like he is some sort of God like entity.If he is this good he wouldnt have bought rubbsih like Rosicky,Senderos,Walcott,Diaby,Denilson etc he have actually flushed more then 200 mil on rubbish talent and washed up has beens.The Arsenal academy havnt produced ONE single world class players since Ashley Cole and he have talent spotters all around the World.He missed out on Ronaldo for a bare pittance and Zlatan and Rooney were close to signing but the stingy board wouldnt cough up and then we signed Reyes……..the rest is history.During the Graham era in a spell of 3 seasons the Youth academy produced Merson,Rocastle,Mickey Thomas,Niall Quinn and Captain fantastic and they didnt have talent spotters around the world and the didnt throw cash at young players,they played at Arsenal because the loved and had an affinty with the club,i wonder how many of the current players know 5 percent of Arsenals history.