Touré: We need to be professional

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Date	Time	C	Opponent	F	A	R	S
31 Mar	12:45 PM	P	Liverpool (A)	1	4	Lost

Kolo Touré has called on his Arsenal team mates to be professional and stand up for themselves in the wake of the 4-1 hammering by Liverpool.

Speaking like a captain rallying his wounded troops for once last surge, the central defender said that the team should be playing for one another, especially when things aren't going well on the pitch.

Touré said: "We lost, but it is definitely a big motivation for the players to finish in third place.

"We are professional and we need to stay motivated because we are a big club and every game is important for us.

"We need to be really strong all over the pitch.

"When we win, we win together and when we fail we fail together.

"We had beaten Liverpool three times this season - but we did not have the response when they went ahead."

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Antony Waiganjo

Posted on 4 Apr, 2007 at 02:05 PM - Reply

Stay STRONG gunners we all behind you.

JamesT

Posted on 4 Apr, 2007 at 01:34 PM - Reply

Yadda Yadda Yadda. We heard the same big talk before Aston Villa, Everton and Liverpool - how we're going to do this, that and the other - we deserved to lose all three, even if we fluked Villa.

The situation is pretty dire. Key players injured, some are too young, tactics all wrong, some simply don't care. Massive problems all round - this is one of the worst Arsenal teams under Wenger's reign.

Will it come good? Who knows, the balance is all wrong - senior players (what's left of them) won't stick around for 3 years while the team develops. Either buy 3 key players in the summer or the whole thing will go down the pan.

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