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Arsene Wenger: What I told the players after the Manchester City game

Written by Jeffrey on December 1, 2011 – 4:45

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was very proud of his players after last Tuesday’s Carling Cup exit but frustrated for losing the game the way they did.

Speaking to Arsenal Player, the Frenchman explained that at full time he told his players that the way they conceded was “naive” adding that they will hopefully learn from the mistake as they deserved to win the game and reach the semi-final of the competition.

Asked about the brilliant performance of some of the young players, Wenger concluded by praising midfielders Emmanuel Frimpong and Francis Coquelin and also Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, one who didn’t feature much this season but never failed to disappoint expectations.

After the defeat, the manager said:

[Proud of the players?] I am, they produced a fantastic effort, we lacked a little bit maturity in the final third to make the difference but overall we did well.

It’s frustrating to lose a game like that because it’s a corner for you and then it’s a goal for them, you say OK if it’s a good goal but like that it’s very disappointing.

[What I just told the players?] I told them it was naive to concede a goal from a corner of your own.

That’s just a learning process and I feel sorry we lost a game like that which we shouldn’t have.

We dominated and in the second half I think we were on top. Even going to extra time I feel we would have won the game.

[Some new young players for fans to look forward to?] Well, you have discovered, this season, Coquelin, Frimpong you knew already and certainly Chamberlain and in patches Ozyakup who didn’t play tonight.

But overall, Miquel, you knew already, but I think the player our fans didn’t know was Chamberlain.

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  • GunZ BlaziN says:
    December 1, 2011 at 6:33

    we know the OX……… we know the OX,

    Hes such an exciting and explosive player, hope theirs much more to come from him, frimpong and coquelen were great, we were very unlucky to lose that game, their keeper was bloody 6″8, how do you score past that lol.

    time for wigan to feel our wrath :)

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    • kay says:
      December 1, 2011 at 9:43

      The way to put the ball past such tall keeper is to hit the ball hard at the ground level so that before he gets down, the ball would have passed.

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  • spider says:
    December 1, 2011 at 9:56

    Chamberlain should teach Gervinho how to shoot then we shall have very effective wings and terrorize teams. I was disappointed when he got substituted, because he is the only one who looked like winning the game for us.

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  • Bluemoon says:
    December 1, 2011 at 10:36

    Lastnight, the gunner youngsters show the fan how they are good even if no lucky for team to win . Ithink it’s may be better for Emmanuel Frimpong ,Ozyakup and Ryo Miyaichi to be more comfortable experience in Owen Coyle’s management if they loan to Bolton like Jacko done in2010. But AW may sent all of them to Division1 team more than Premier League team that I don’t understand AW think.

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  • Rokabox says:
    December 1, 2011 at 13:43

    Lads, Benayoun was awful, he didn’t make any effective pass and his control of the ball was horrendous. Any positive from him was largely from what he used to be when he was @ Liverpool, no wonder Chelsea let him out on loan to us. The guy was useless and he should have been subbed

    Alex Chamberlain style and play like Rooney indeed so may be he can do the job there!

    Gervinio was wasteful when he came in and delayed the crosses when he should have looked up and seen the players queuing in the box. he needs to use his head (brain)
    and read the game sometimes

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  • john day says:
    December 1, 2011 at 14:36

    Roka i don’t know if i was watching the same game???…..For me benny was one of the best players in the team on the night and he is having a good effect on the younger lads at the club.Sign him up Arsene!!!!!

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  • Mark says:
    December 1, 2011 at 14:51

    It amazes me how often our free kicks and corner kicks don’t make it over the first defender as was the issue with the corner kick we had that led to the goal. Chamberlin’s kick was short (as many that game were) which is the only one that really allows for such a quick breakaway the other way. We then had the late free kick by Frimpong that was short in extra time and also Arshavin’s late corner after he came on that went right to the keeper who didn’t move. In all of those cases we had some of our strongest headers you will ever see in their together up in the box (Vermaelen, Chamakh, Djourou, Koscielny, Squillaci and even Fabianski on the last free kick) and not once did we give them a chance to even make a play on the ball. To me that is ridiculous. Girls on my U18 and U16 teams can place corner kicks and free kicks better than that in matches. It happens game after game. I also don’t understand why we can’t put our wings (our fastest players like Walcott and Gervinho) back on defense on the corner kicks when we don’t have Gibbs and Sagna back there to be better able to defend counter attacks with fast players breaking past our slower players that have been back there.

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  • Scott (USA) says:
    December 1, 2011 at 18:01

    Arsenal played a very good game against Man City. That is the bottom line. Like Wenger stated we could have done better in the final 3rd but Man City was fortunate to get the win. We have some great youth players coming through and another striker is all we need in Jan.

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  • Isaac says:
    December 1, 2011 at 18:20

    First of all, Happy birthday to Arsenal! To me, Ox ll be one of the best Arsenal players. With his skill on last tuesday, he s very fulfilling. Indeed, he is one of the best shining during last summer. I suggest that Sir Wenger should give him a chance on Wigan’s clash this weekend.

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  • spider says:
    December 2, 2011 at 7:47

    The only downside I see here is that last season we lost in a Carling Cup final due to an obvious mistake, and this time we are out of the same due to pretty simplistic mistake at the time we are taking a corner and we are unable to remember to guard against a counter attack, I wonder whether as a team we have moved a step forward or not. The simple mistakes have not only shown this time round, but on a number of occasions this season already. are we learning??

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