Nottingham Forest 24- Arsenal
Disappointing and humiliating performance from Arsene Wenger’s men today in Nottingham. The Premiership club took advantage of a pale and disconcerting Arsenal squad. The club from London will not retain the trophy they had won last year. This season is chaotic and Arsenal no longer have the firepower in England. How long will it last? The club seem years away from wining the Premier League and likely not to compete again in Champions League…
Wenger on the humiliation:
I just think that we were not good enough anywhere, not at the front and not in the middle or at the back. We paid for it and they looked sharper, had more chances and that’s all I can say. Nottingham Forest had an outstanding performance today. We couldn’t fault any individual performance from Forest today.
I wouldn’t like to talk about the individual performances today because it’s disappointing that we lost the game. That’s all I can say. There are some days where you have to say, ‘Nottingham Forest were better than us’. Unfortunately that was the case. Of course that was disappointing and on top of that we have another big game on Wednesday. We have to focus on that now.
That’s why it’s disappointing. During the game, we repeated the same mistakes. That’s where we are guilty today. Once, twice, three times – at that level, you cannot afford that. It hurts very much. We’ve won the FA Cup three times in the last four years. On the other end, we don’t win the FA Cup every year. It’s a difficult competition to win. Of course it hurts very much to go out in the third round.
