Arsenal boss compares clash with defending champs Man Utd to a western film, taking into account ill-tempered past meetings
Arsenal boss compares clash with defending champs Man Utd to a western film, taking into account ill-tempered past meetings
Arsene Wengeru00a0believes indiscipline will not let Arsenal down in their big Sunday showdown against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Clashes between the two sides have been bad tempered in the past and the Gunners go into the game with Alex Song, Gervinho and Emmanuel Frimpong suspended.
Arsene Wenger
Wenger, whose side have just one point from their first two Premier League matches, said: "The discipline has cost us a lot since the start of the season. If we had mastered our responses and reactions we could have six points.
"It's even more important to get results and not let Manchester United away too early. It is vital for us to have a good game on Sunday. "Sometimes at the beginning of the season it is like a Western film, they (the players) come out stronger.
Man United's Wayne Rooney and Arsenal's Laurent Koscielny get
nasty in pursuit of the ball during last season's EPL match in
Manchester. PIC/Getty images
"But we have shown that we have mental strength and good unity to fight. I'm confident we will be solid on Sunday and have a big performance." Wenger believes the midweek triumph against Udinese in the Champions League qualifying tie has given his side the feelgood factor.
He said: "After the first game with Udinese I felt the squad was a bit insecure.u00a0"That game was in our mind when we played Liverpool. That game is out of the mind now and we have a much more convincing team at Manchester."
Fergie escapes FA action
Alex Ferguson will face no further action over his four-letter attack on the Football Association.
Although Ferguson has welcomed the possibility of Manchester United supplying eight members of Fabio Capello's 23-man England squad for the Euro 2012 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Wales when it is unveiled Sunday evening, he could not resist a sideswipe at the FA, with whom he has historically had a fraught relationship. "They treat us like s**t," Ferguson had said.
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