Arsene Wenger slams “boring” media for asking about Arsenal team selection

The threat followed continued questions regarding the reasons for Ospina being selected ahead of Petr Cech for the 3-2 loss to Olympiacos, which saw the Chile global drop the ball in his own net as Arsenal lost a second Champions League group game on the trot.

“Whichever team comes here to win needs to know how to suffer, to put up with the pressure and I think that was one of the key features here today”, he said. “I never criticised that”. Honestly, not one came out and analysed well the game.

Louis van Gaal’s men are on a three-match winning run in the Premier League, having defeated Liverpool, Southampton and Sunderland in their last three games, and have also got their Champions League campaign back on track with last night’s 2-1 defeat of the Wolves.

“To come always with such same story”.

“I make these decisions and the selections for the team, and I am responsible for it. We can not select the team by getting everyone’s opinion and making a poll”, said a defiant Wenger.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger described the media as “boring” after threatening to walk out of his press conference this morning.

“Stop that story or we stop the press conference”.

– David Ospina (@D_Ospina1)(2/2) but I train hard and I will make sure I come back stronger.

Walcott eventually returned the creative favour for Sanchez with a clipped cross for the Chilean to head home an equaliser on 65 minutes – and that should have been the cue for Arsenal to climb through their attacking gears and overwhelm their opponents.

When asked today what he had meant, Wenger said: “Like I don’t know anything that you do in your job”.

Mertesacker told the official Arsenal website: “We lacked that concentration and it is not understandable why we drifted and did not do the job we are used to doing”.

The Express claims that the France global tweaked his hamstring and will now join the likes of Mathieu Flamini and Mikel Arteta, who both missed the game against the Greek side through injury. He hopes Francis Coquelin will be fit to play a role.

‘People say Arsenal have made it hard for themselves but, for me, progression is now out of their hands, ‘ he added.

“I think there’s certainly a weakness to the group, they look like they lack characters, leaders and winners”.