Wenger admits Arsenal have ‘generous attitude’

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, has admitted that they have been victims of their “generous attitude”.

The Gunners dominated Manchester United last weekend, but ended up losing 2-1 at the Emirates. Wenger’s men however bounced back on Wednesday night, with a 2-0 win over Dortmund.

Wenger’s tactics of over-attacking has come under scrutiny lately, with United sealing their victory with two quick counter-attacks. But the Frenchman insists his men played similar games in the two matches.

“We had a good start and I believe overall it was a very intense game between two very good teams,” he told reporters. “We were highly focused to defend well together from the first to the last minute. We always looked dangerous and defensively we were very good.

“We were more under pressure because we felt on Saturday we played well but we were a victim of our generous attitude.

“We had a similar game to Saturday, we had to focus really well not to give any chances away and overall it was a committed game and maybe we were defensively better tonight.

“We are a team who likes to go forward and sometimes when you feel you dominate completely the game you are maybe a victim of that, and forget to take precautions to defend well, but I think you learn from the games and we have done a lot better tonight.”

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