Wenger on...the performance
"I feel that you cannot always play well and lose as we have
been doing. We have got a lot of criticism but there is only one
way to answer that and that is with the quality of the performance
on the pitch. We had a very young team out today with eight under
22, especially at the back. We were very young but we had a great
team performance and a great team spirit."
Wenger on...keeping a clean sheet
"When you consider we had eight players out at
the back, the boys can be very proud of their
performance."
Wenger on...Emmanuel Adebayor's debut
"I thought he brought a great presence. He is
tall and I thought he added size to the team, like Diaby does too.
In these kinds of games it is important to have that. Overall we
had a good presence in the air today, maybe we would have lost that
game before because a lot was about winning challenges in the air.
Adebayor brought us a presence and I think Thierry Henry took
advantage of it as well."
Arsène Wenger
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