Every team passes through several ups and downs within a season hence it is generally not expected from fans that they will decide the fate of their team in the middle itself, and if we are talking about Arsenal, such an expectation becomes hypothetical since English premier league often changes its toppers in the second half. Gunners’ manager Arsene Wenger has also asked club fans to have patience and wait until the end of the season to know how they performed in the English as well European seasons and request them not to be misled by negative stories about their game, players, and leadership running across some media channels. This is actually nothing new in England where media usually runs the entire league vibes and provokes fans to change their perception about any side; cases of racial abuses or violence is the perfect example where many times media shows only one side of the story ignoring other aspects which could as well be important.
They lost to Stoke City last week and their next game is with Galatasaray on Monday when they will try to recoup their earlier losses, but even if they can’t do it, Wenger has requested fans not to judge them by emotional sentiments running around after few defeats recently, perhaps he is confident to have better ranking on the leaderboard by the end of the season. Talking about the feelings and how they change after every loss, 65-year-old French said, “Look, the response after a defeat is always very important. What we want is to come back quickly to a strong defensive performance, what we had before the game.
“We showed a lack of experience defensively, but we could have scored four or five goals in this game and the team response during this game was quite strong. For the rest, you expect that everyone is disappointed after that result, but the Premier League is difficult. We want to be judged at the end of the season, not after every single game where it is normal that emotion is always very high, so let us get our stability back defensively and see at the end of the season where we are.”
“No, not at all. We have to cope with that. We are professional footballers. What is important is the next game and the desire to do it. I am a competitive person. What is important is the next game and responding in a strong way, to play to win the game,” he replied on asking if criticism affects him as a manager.