I believe as well it's always the same when you have many good players, some of them cannot play," added Wenger. Wenger said he considered Giroud a regular member of his team and praised his attitude. Wenger was critical, however, of his players' slow start in recent matches and of what he saw as a creeping amount of time-wasting. Arsenal's previous league match was a 3-1 home defeat to Manchester United, with the Gunners conceding twice in the opening 11 minutes. "I felt the Manchester United game played a bit of a part in the head of our defenders," Wenger told the BBC.

Source: The Star December 10, 2017 18:22 UTC