Wenger's comments on today's performance, Sanchez and signings

Wenger's comments on today's performance, Sanchez and signings

After the match, Arsène Wenger spoke to Arsenal Player. Here’s what he said:

Yes, exactly. We made mistakes that were not even forced by their qualities, just because we made bad decisions. Overall, it’s very frustrating that we come out down from the stand and wonder how did we lose this game. I don’t really know how. Being harsh, I would say we gave the game away today with mistakes. It was not attitude, because our attitude was spot on. The players had good focus and as well, being objective, we didn’t create enough on that front.

Both boxes. I would say on the creative side we were not sharp enough. I am surprised by the kind of mistakes we made today. It’s very unusual and very difficult to explain.

I think we need to give more, push ourselves even more and get some experienced players back at the back. We make too many naive mistakes. That is urgent, as well that we strengthen our offensive power. At the moment we have a lot of the ball, but we didn’t create enough in the final third.

On Sanchez

He’s a bit on standby, he could move out or not. I don’t know really how the situation goes now. That’s why it was very difficult for him. He’s in a mode where he doesn’t know what’s happening to him. That’s why I decided to leave him out, because he could have moved today, or not. I didn’t want to come down with him here travelling away from the team.

We cannot let the players go and not strengthen our squad.

We have seen that today. It’s important that first of all, we get the players who are injured back and as well that we get some more offensive power in.

It’s difficult always to say if it’s soon or not, but it has to be done.