Points Could Win Premier League – Wenger

First off as Barcelona is in Japan for the Club World Cup and will play the Final against Argentinian River Plate, Arsene Wenger remembers the Round of 16 in 2011 against the Blaugrana that Arsenal lost overall winning 2-1 the first leg before falling 3-1 in Barcelona…

“I think he has brought his experience and his calm and his leadership as well”, he said.

City will go into Monday’s game buoyed by Sergio Aguero’s return to fitness – but Arsenal are not giving up hope on their own talismanic frontman being fit for the clash.

The membership’s all-time main scorer unsurprisingly quickly scored 50 Premier League objectives after simply 83 video games. This gives cause to optimism, despite it not being a very factual statistic (for example, we played Liverpool home twice in this calendar year, whereas in a normal season we would play them home and away). Do we suppose their fans are really muttering to themselves up at White Hart Lane: “I’m really, really glad not to be playing Barcelona – really – I’ve enjoyed our boys playing Metalurg Qarabag Rovers so much over all these years that I wouldn’t want to see Messi and Neymar play here”.

The Frenchman was part of the Gunners side which last won the title back in 2003/04 when Arsene Wenger’s “Invincibles” team went the entire season campaign unbeaten.

Speaking ahead of Monday’s game Wenger lavished praise on in-form Ozil, saying: “Players who can make you score are very hard to find and have something special on the vision front and on the technical quality”. We should maybe have been quicker on the day than Chelsea.

Cech impressed at Rennes before his move to England in 2004, with Wenger lamenting the speed at which Arsenal moved for the shot-stopper back then. It might be under an owner known to fire people very quickly, but this is still one of the best paying, highest profile jobs in football, with a squad that might be grossly underachieving, but it might have had something to do with players simply not responding to the Portuguese manager anymore.

Win or likely lose, with this tie Europe’s two great passing sides meet. “But some achievements you cannot ignore and to be in a position where I can break the all-time clean-sheet record is something that I never thought I would be able to do”. While there is uncertainty around the futures of Pellegrini and van Gaal this season, it will probably be a different story next year and if Wenger and Arsenal can not get the job done in these circumstances, how will they cope with a stronger Chelsea, Liverpool, United and City?