Youngsters still learning - Wenger

Mon, 26 Oct 11:59:33 2009

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger called for his youngsters to be more clinical after they were pegged back by West Ham.

The Gunners had been leading 2-0 and were coasting at Upton Park before late goals from Carlton Cole and substitute Alessandro Diamanti snatched a point for the home side.

While Wenger felt referee Chris Foy was somewhat "generous" with what proved key decisions, he added: "We complicated our game a little bit and had five or six chances in the second half, but we missed the final ball.

"That is what we have to learn."

 

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  1. I have Arsenal fc at heart and totally NOTHING can ever­ change that even if it is relegated tomorrow. BUT­ attimes i fancy Fergie's attitude towards the game.­ You can never come from behind to win a game against­ Man U. The last 40min of sunday's game showed lack­ of lust to Arsene's side for a trophy. Whats wrong­ with a team playing well and win a thing? Look,­ Arshavin got lost in late first half then why not bring­ Edwardo to pair up Van Persie to increase pace­ up-front??? He is a fantastic player but he was not at­ his best on sunday. And you need to detect that in the­ middle of the game. Thou Eboue didn't score, he had­ pace and it only needed a combination of two quick­ fronts to finish. Van can't play a lone striker­ role. We fans get heart-broken at some of the­ decisions. Intead of capitalizing on 2goals and bring­ in more power, power is brought in at a wrong time.­ Early substitutions for Hammers changed the whole­ thing. What if Bendtner came in for Diaby, and Edwardo­ for Arsharvin???? in the 60th minute. Wonderful­ football, money comes,...but no trophies.
    Alex,­ Uganda-Africa

    From nesco_6, on Tue 27 Oct 8:00AM
  2. Gone are the days when you will say you are­ principle,life is not always all about our­ philosophy.we should only try 2 re-arrange it when the­ time comes.

    This highest time for Mr Wenger to forget­ about been principled.
    The team that featured against­ West ham lack the experience to challenge for­ honours.Arsenal failed to hold on to 2.0 advantage,its­ was very pathetic.Since 1996,I hav never been­ disappointed in Wenger bt against West ham,I was very­ disappointed,he failed woefully to make the subtitution­ at the wrong time.its very late.Diaby,Ashavin should­ have been removed in the 1st 10min into the 2nd­ half.When he failed to do that,with the way hammers­ were coming back,I knew they will score, which I expect­ Wenger to know,but.....we'll wait till­ tuesday,against the reds,then will define our­ problem.Problem can't be solved,without been­ defined.

    From Andrea, on Tue 27 Oct 1:02AM
  3. we played terrible some arsenal players though all­ they had to do was turn up iwas amazed at diaby ­ eboue and ashavin staying on so long apart from van­ persie fabrigas vermarlin ithought the rest were very­ average ashavin was weak is he fit is arsene playing­ players who are carrying knocks we are not looking­ good we are jeckle and hyde if we had beaten west­ ham and won our game in hand we would have topped the ­ premeiership yes by winng both games we would be­ top we have denielson diaby eboue we have ­ players that get injured to easy i dont rate wallcot ­ denielson diaby eboue why not give the welsh lad a­ chance also you got to rotate the players if they­ dont perform in first 20 mins get them off not wait­ tillwest ham score 2 5 mins to go we send on subs­ gives them no chance to shine gunners for ever if we­ play like sunday at tottenham we will get stuffed ­ wake up wenger before we loss the chance to win a­ trophy or good by fabrigas and van persie they wont­ stay mark my words we need a out and out stricker a­ holding midfeilder and a tall centre half gallas ­ must go he is to slow spend some money in january not­ on some kid buy some experiance pay the money the­ way wenger acts you would think nit was his money got­ to speculate to acumalate spend it in january or we­ will win nothing

    From holton211, on Mon 26 Oct 11:20PM
  4. we played terrible some arsenal players though all­ they had to do was turn up iwas amazed at diaby ­ eboue and ashavin staying on so long apart from van­ persie fabrigas vermarlin ithought the rest were very­ average ashavin was weak is he fit is arsene playing­ players who are carrying knocks we are not looking­ good we are jeckle and hyde if we had beaten west­ ham and won our game in hand we would have topped the ­ premeiership yes by winng both games we would be­ top we have denielson diaby eboue we have ­ players that get injured to easy i dont rate wallcot ­ denielson diaby eboue why not give the welsh lad a­ chance also you got to rotate the players if they­ dont perform in first 20 mins get them off not wait­ tillwest ham score 2 5 mins to go we send on subs­ gives them no chance to shine gunners for ever if we­ play like sunday at tottenham we will get stuffed ­ wake up wenger before we loss the chance to win a­ trophy or good by fabrigas and van persie they wont­ stay mark my words we need a out and out stricker a­ holding midfeilder and a tall centre half gallas ­ must go he is to slow spend some money in january not­ on some kid buy some experiance pay the money the­ way wenger acts you would think nit was his money got­ to speculate to acumalate spend it in january or we­ will win nothing

    From holton211, on Mon 26 Oct 11:20PM
  5. we played terrible some arsenal players though all­ they had to do was turn up iwas amazed at diaby ­ eboue and ashavin staying on so long apart from van­ persie fabrigas vermarlin ithought the rest were very­ average ashavin was weak is he fit is arsene playing­ players who are carrying knocks we are not looking­ good we are jeckle and hyde if we had beaten west­ ham and won our game in hand we would have topped the ­ premeiership yes by winng both games we would be­ top we have denielson diaby eboue we have ­ players that get injured to easy i dont rate wallcot ­ denielson diaby eboue why not give the welsh lad a­ chance also you got to rotate the players if they­ dont perform in first 20 mins get them off not wait­ tillwest ham score 2 5 mins to go we send on subs­ gives them no chance to shine gunners for ever if we­ play like sunday at tottenham we will get stuffed ­ wake up wenger before we loss the chance to win a­ trophy or good by fabrigas and van persie they wont­ stay mark my words we need a out and out stricker a­ holding midfeilder and a tall centre half gallas ­ must go he is to slow spend some money in january not­ on some kid buy some experiance pay the money the­ way wenger acts you would think nit was his money got­ to speculate to acumalate spend it in january or we­ will win nothing

    From holton211, on Mon 26 Oct 11:20PM
  6. we played terrible some arsenal players though all­ they had to do was turn up iwas amazed at diaby ­ eboue and ashavin staying on so long apart from van­ persie fabrigas vermarlin ithought the rest were very­ average ashavin was weak is he fit is arsene playing­ players who are carrying knocks we are not looking­ good we are jeckle and hyde if we had beaten west­ ham and won our game in hand we would have topped the ­ premeiership yes by winng both games we would be­ top we have denielson diaby eboue we have ­ players that get injured to easy i dont rate wallcot ­ denielson diaby eboue why not give the welsh lad a­ chance also you got to rotate the players if they­ dont perform in first 20 mins get them off not wait­ tillwest ham score 2 5 mins to go we send on subs­ gives them no chance to shine gunners for ever if we­ play like sunday at tottenham we will get stuffed ­ wake up wenger before we loss the chance to win a­ trophy or good by fabrigas and van persie they wont­ stay mark my words we need a out and out stricker a­ holding midfeilder and a tall centre half gallas ­ must go he is to slow spend some money in january not­ on some kid buy some experiance pay the money the­ way wenger acts you would think nit was his money got­ to speculate to acumalate spend it in january or we­ will win nothing

    From holton211, on Mon 26 Oct 11:20PM
  7. Arsene Wenger is also part of Arsenal's problem.­ This I say with respect to allowing Abu Diaby to­ continue playing even when Arsene knows Diaby­ wasn't playing well. Three players were supposed to­ be changed 20minutes into second half in­ yesterday's game. These were Asharvin, Diaby and­ Eboue. In particular, Diaby was causing us a lot of­ problems yet Arsene kept him on until 89th minute­ before bringing in Eduardo. By then, it was too late­ for him to make any meaningful impact in the game. One­ would have expected Arsene to bring in Samir Nasri to­ replace Diaby and plucked loopholes created by Diaby­ but he failed to do just that. If we cannot amass­ maximum points from minor teams, them I fear what lies­ ahead beacause we are yet to play Chelsea, Aston Villa,­ Totteham and Liverpoool which are great sides. Remember­ what happened when we played Man U and Man City­ respectively, the results were negative for us. What­ stops Arsene from going for Carlton Cole? Am just­ imagining what it will look like if we have him combine­ with Robin van Persie at the front. Yesterday, I saw­ him guiding ball in the presence of 3 to 4 Arsenal­ players with ease. His shooting ability is superb, his­ aerial ball control is wonderful and his pace is­ excellent. In fact, he single handedly salvage that one­ point for West Ham.
    My humble suggestion, could you­ send this piece to Arsene Wenger? LONG ARSENE WENGER,­ FANS OF ARSENAL and ARSENAL.

    From Omoijiahina G, on Mon 26 Oct 8:44PM
  8. it is not right we [ arsenal] should have won

    From forbes462, on Mon 26 Oct 2:54PM
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