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'We need to kick-start the season'

Arsene Wenger and Jack Wilshere agree that Arsenal must start matching performances with results.

The Gunners have drawn six of their first 13 matches in all competitions this season, and have found themselves behind at some stage in eight separate games.

"Top level performance is to make the maximum with your potential and sometimes in games you need a fraction more"

Arsene Wenger

That was the case at the weekend, when Danny Welbeck's stoppage-time equaliser against Hull City salvaged a point on an afternoon where Wenger's side dominated for large periods.

"Look, we have lost only one game in the Premier League but we have not enough points with what we produced," the boss said. "Top level performance is to make the maximum with your potential and sometimes in games you need a fraction more.

"That’s what we want to do - give a fraction more to be really efficient in what we do."

Wilshere has enjoyed a convincing start to the season and is confident that results will improve.

"In big games this season, we have been so close," he said. "In the Man City game, we were close to winning and then a lack of concentration [happens] and we draw the game.

"If we had won one of those… but we are confident we can do it. We played Tottenham at home as well and feel we should have won the game, we dominated possession.

"If we can just concentrate a little bit more defensively, then we are confident we can do that."

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