Arsene Wenger

We knew we would face a direct game and recently we have been punished on that.

Of course, we gave the opponent a bit more the ball than we are used to.

We lost two games against Crystal Palace and West Brom.

We had 70% of possession and today we had a bit less.

No, we want to have the ball, but sometimes when a team lacks confidence, just to change the system can help to believe in something different.

look who knows but i feel just we are in a position where you want to perform and you can always find explanations but we are professional people and our job is to perform and despite sometimes

difficult situations or some situations that will lack clarity, we still can perform.

We played a very good first half and I think we were unlucky just before half-time to concede a goal because the free-kick looked very, very harsh.

We didn't recover really from that and after that we paid for a lack of experience at the back and the fact that some players are not ready physically to last 90 minutes at that level.

But overall it's disappointing because

In the first half, you think you should come out with at least one goal for us, and in the end, ten minutes later, you are 3-1 down, and it was difficult to recover.

We did fight until the end, but we lacked a bit of stability.

You're always concerned in a situation like that, but we have shown mental qualities to come back and to fight back, of course.

Yes, the first one you could need would get some players back.

And of course, I said many times that we are working very hard to get still one or two players in.

Is it desperate, the need, do you think?

It's always desperate, because there's not much time left.

I don't know what you call desperate, it has to make sense and to be quality.

Yes, we've done that already before.

It's not always identifying the players and getting the availability of the players.