on an eight-goal thriller...
"It is never boring here. You can accuse me of
a lot, but not of making it boring and the team played some
tremendous football today. Blackburn as well played well, and in
the end they were punished a little bit. Maybe too much because
Nonda, Bentley and Pederson played well going forward as well. I
must say we produced some football that is absolutely amazing to
watch."
on targets for this season...
"I told you yesterday that I believe we can
achieve something this season, but I think it's down to
consistency. We have put a little run together now with Porto,
Chelsea, Tottenham, Wigan, Portsmouth, today. It's just how
consistent we can be. You see that there's a great spirit in
the team, they enjoy to play. Not only do they enjoy to play
together, they enjoy to play at a high tempo. That's something
amazing and very interesting to watch."
on Blackburn's fightback...
"At 3-2 at some stage we were a little bit
exposed, because Jens had to make one or two saves. It could have
got them back to 3-3. But maybe sometimes because we were 3-1 we
were not cautious enough and our desire to go forward at any cost
sometimes can punish us."
on his goal of the day...
"The fifth goal is an amazing goal - the fifth
goal is a real Arsenal goal. The sixth is good as well because it
was individually Fabregas who passed on the flanks, but the fifth
goal was a collective goal. Adebayor plays Fabregas through, who is
in a position to shoot and cuts it back for Van Persie."
Copyright 2013 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source 23 Dec 2006
