Wenger's team played a scoreless draw at West Ham United on Wednesday and is in seventh place going into Saturday's meeting with Rafael Benitez's team. The West Ham draw was preceded by a stalemate at Southampton -- both games Wenger would have expected to win -- reinforcing the view that Arsenal have not yet recovered from the blow of losing to Manchester United at home. Wenger shuffled his pack for the short trip to West Ham, with both Jack Wilshere and Olivier Giroud making their first Premier League starts of the season. "At the moment, I've just played my first game in the Premier League. The reality is we're not in a great position and sometimes things need to be said that players don't want to hear.

Source: The Nation Bangkok December 15, 2017 01:07 UTC