Arsène Wenger Rounds On Arsenal Players For Their ‘Naivety’

Well, Arsene Wenger should blast his players, no room for fiddle stylish nor selfish game otherwise they would relapse to their former condition of been thrashed by both big and small clubs. Times reports that an angry Arsène Wenger turned on his Arsenal players and accused them of being “feeble” and “naive” after their humbling at Anfield.

 

The Arsenal manager was speaking to French media in the immediate aftermath of the defeat at Anfield. Initially, he accepted responsibility and refused to single out individuals.

 

But Mikel Arteta revealed that the recriminations began at half-time. Arteta said he had never seen the Frenchman as angry as when a furious Wenger confronted his players for their capitulation in the opening 20-minute period in which Liverpool scored four unanswered goals.

 

And talking to French media, Wenger said: “We were feeble in every important aspect of playing at the highest level: concentration, strength in the challenge and naivety. So from that moment on it’s impossible to win a game when you’re at that level.

 

“We’ve been well beaten twice now, and twice with an early kick-off away from home [having lost 6-3 at Manchester City in December]. But we have to ask questions about this. Because when you’re playing in a big game and the first two free kicks go in, it becomes very hard because you have to open the game up and you’ve got more chance of letting in eight or ten than you have of getting back in the game.”

 

Arsenal now face a testing run of home fixtures, starting with Manchester United on Wednesday before an FA Cup fifth-round tie with Liverpool and a Champions League game against Bayern Munich.

 

“A successful team responds to disappointment and we will see on Wednesday night,” Wenger said. “If our confidence isn’t affected too much, I think it will come back and we’ll see a different Arsenal side.

 

“What shocked me [against Liverpool] was the quality of our performance. Of course that was not expected but we have to take it on the chin, analyse it in the right way and come back with what we are used to.

 

“We were poor in every aspect. Maybe that has something to do with Liverpool. They played really well and I wouldn’t like to take anything away from their performance, but we did make it quite easy for them.”