LONDON - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said his team had come close to perfection after watching them mark his 20th anniversary with a 3-0 win over Chelsea on Saturday. The only negative for Wenger, who was appointed Arsenal manager in September 1996, was a first-half knee injury sustained by midfielder Francis Coquelin, which saw Granit Xhaka come on. "We lost Coquelin and Xhaka came on and straight away he is at the level of the game," Wenger told Sky Sports. For Chelsea manager Conte, it was a third successive league game without victory following a 2-2 draw at Swansea City and a 2-1 home defeat by Liverpool. "It is always a team problem rather than individuals.

Source: Bangkok Post September 24, 2016 19:30 UTC