Wenger: This was a major disappointment

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Date	Time	C	Opponent	F	A	R	S
10 May	4:00 PM	P	Chelsea (H)	1	4	Lost

Sunday's 4-1 loss to Chelsea has been labelled as a major disappointment by manager Arsène Wenger.

Although the young team created enough chances, they were guilty of not taking them and Chelsea punished them by scoring with almost every attack on the Arsenal goal.

The result confirmed Arsenal's finish in the top four but there is no chance for them to overtake Chelsea and take third spot, which automatically qualifies a team for next season's Champions League.

Wenger said: "It's very difficult. You can be very positive or very negative. We lost the game 4-1 which is a major disappointment but I feel going forward we had a very interesting game and created plenty of chances.

"That is never a 4-1 game, we should have been 2-0 up before they had a shot on goal.

"On the first free-kick we made a mistake and they scored. Today we missed seven or eight clear-cut chances and on every single mistake we made we were punished.

"It means our chances to come third are definitely over. The rest I don't feel will have any other influence than that.

"We had a small opportunity to come third but three months ago everybody said we would finished tenth so I would have signed at that point to finish fourth.

"I don't feel we have to be too disappointed with that but what is very disappointing for us is in the games that mattered in the last three or four weeks we couldn't win.

"That's where we have to analyse. But today there were a lot of positives in the game and we have to take a little distance from the defeat because it's not a 4-1 game today."

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SensationalSilvestre

Posted on 12 May, 2009 at 03:44 PM - Reply

We need to make a few changes in the squad.We can sell players like Fabregas,Nasri, Arshavin etc. and buy players like Berbatov, Maldini, Favalli, Brocchi, Shevchenkho , Viera , Figo , Ronaldo (Brazil) .
We need such experienced players.We must honour Silvestre with a new 4 year contract with wages 80,000 pounds for his excellent contributions this season.

simon_84

Posted on 12 May, 2009 at 07:16 AM - Reply

the EPL top horses should be renamed as the big 3 instead of the big 4, when was arsenal ever part of the big 4 in recent seasons? an underachieving team yet again!

WHY

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 05:46 PM - Reply

I hate how this site caters for all you negative posters but everytime I post a positive post it never gets shown. Carry on moping about then. SICK OF THIS BS on this site. Go support another team.

Alan Delaney - you're a fool.......Drogba dived. If that is a foul then 'football as a game' has more to worry about than 'Arsenal as a team' do.

GranR - SA

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 04:24 PM - Reply

You seem to have hit the nail on the head. I would like to add one thing - I live for the day when Arsene Wenger will just be HONEST. I am so tired of this spin-doctoring. Maybe his players believe him and thus believe they are perfect & don't need to improve? But the fans - I could write his speech at the end of the game. Probably at the beginning.... Unhappily it's his ego that finally got the better of him and that is very sad.

oswald

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 03:17 PM - Reply

we simply need defenders and strikers next season...we r tired of a coach who likes new stadiums and developping young players.we need a coach who will deliver trophies.we hav been the top 4's miserable fans for the last 5 yrs
am so sick of this team..so sad i cant change my jersey

zabulon

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 12:28 PM - Reply

What will be the Manu game is this one, we lost for Wenger do something to make it difficult for Manu so that they can't beat us again. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaase.

john peter

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 12:11 PM - Reply

Drogba was clearly fouled by Fabregas, but that didn't stop Sylvester to contest the header with Alex, Wenger should not used this as an excuse for Arsenal's lost, we had our chances but never took them. why was Adebayor on the bench for Diaby to play rubbish. We need to buy, not just buying but quality buying.

VR

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 09:54 AM - Reply

Perhaps Wenger and Fabregasbelieved it really was a dive and that you merely disagree with them. Either way, Drogba has a reputation because of many years of having 'taken advantage' of situations and weak referees.

We all know his reputation is extremely well deserved, so should it be so bad if he has a few go against him after having cheated his way to victory so many times before?

I do agree that Ade dived though and think less of him as a result. Perhaps you should feel the same about Drogba?

Tolu

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 09:28 AM - Reply

What is Wenger's problem,always consoling us with one thing or another.Don't you(Wenger) think we are tired of seeing this team play the so called beautiful football without getting the necessary results. This team lacks penetrators,lacks strength and defence.I hope Wenger gets the necessary players for next season.

theiceman10

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 09:11 AM - Reply

when is wenger really going to wise up????i was at the game on tuesday night men against boys was right and i sat til the third goal how sad i was...lets start with this team of his almunia englands no1 not even arsenals no2 silvestre man utd fans must be laughing there sides off worst player at arsenal since senderos..gibbs will be a player did wenger not see his performances at liverpool and man utd previous well out of his depth..song denillson diaby how bad are they really?????adebayour the biggest clown in arsenal and the most overated player i have ever seen and for walcott a one trick pony ...bentder need i rest my case and after yesterdays performance were do arsenal go because im sick off wenger and the kids!!!!!

Alan Delaney

Posted on 11 May, 2009 at 08:45 AM - Reply

Wenger is being deceitful. Drogba was clearly fouled and it was very poor of Fabregas and Wenger to try to take advantage of his reputation by suggesting he dived. Fabregas was rightly booked.

The only dive of the game came from Adebeyor - where was Wenger's comment on that?

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