on a win that Arsenal needed ...
"I need always to win because I want to win,
but this team has done extremely well since the start of the season
and I was quite confident - I was not worried at all before the
game, I must tell you. We played against a good Newcastle side who
started strong and they created some chances at the start and
slowly took control of the game. In the second half it was
completely controlled by us and we won in the end - I felt the
second goal killed Newcastle. Overall it was a difficult game.
"
on the importance of the first goal...
"Well it was a game where the first goal had a
big impact on the result. We scored when we were in control of the
game, and that of course was mentally difficult to solve by
Newcastle because they knew then it would be difficult. If they had
scored in the first half, that certainly would have given them more
belief. We scored when we were already in control of the
game."
on sticking with Walcott...
"Yes of course because I feel at the moment he
needs that. You see as well, for example, Theo Walcott, the way he
started the game and the way he finished the game, that he grew in
the game. He slowly found confidence. Sometimes when a player feels
he had not a good game, when you can, you can give him another game
to show him as well that you believe in him."
on further talk of Adebayor's incident with
Bendtner...
"Frankly, he has played football, they have all
played football. In what team does that kind of incident not
happen? You are surprised that a country with such a history in the
game makes so much of that, but I can understand it as well because
maybe it is something to talk about. But it has happened, in every
team it happens that there are disagreements."
