Dagens Arsenal - 5 mars

I dagens Arsenal pratar Wenger om Kolo Toure. Ramsey är tillbaka och Samir Nasri tror på att Arsenal tar hem ligatiteln.

Wenger

Toure gjorde inte med flit

Under torsdagskvällen kom nyheten om att den förre Arsenalspelaren Kolo Toure hade testats positivt i ett dopningtest under föregående helgen. Under gårdagens presskonferens gav Wenger ljus på situationen då han förklarade att Toure hade tagit sin frus bantningspiller och det var det som hade visat sig vara förbjudet. Toure borde såklart ha kollat med Man Citys doktor om han kunde ta preparatet. Det gjorde han inte och kommer med stor sannolikhet stängas av.

"It is a complete surprise. I had Kolo Toure here for years, I brought him to England. He is a boy who has a clean life, very honest living, always at home and a family man. I do not suspect him at all to have taken drugs to enhance his performance. I just think it is a mistake by forgetting to ask ‘can I take that?' He wants to control his weight a little bit because that's where he has some problems and he took the product of his wife. I think it is a mistake and he was not cautious enough. I don't think there's a desire there to do something wrong and hide it.", säger Wenger.

Arsenal jagar fortfarande United

Efter att United förlorade borta mot Chelsea i tisdags har Arsenal ett mycket bättre läge i ligan. Fyra poäng skiljer i nuläget lagen åt men om Arsenal kan vinna mot Sunderland så skiljer det bara en poäng när United åker till Anfield för att möta Liverpool. Wenger ser United som favoriter men säger samtidigt att Arsenal har ligan i egna händer nu.

"No, it's not ours to lose, it's United's to lose. If you look at the bookmakers, they favour United. Mathematically it's in our hands but that doesn't mean that it's ours to lose because if you look at the fixtures, we have difficult games. And I would say exactly the reverse: it's ours to win more than ours to lose, because they are in a leading position. So it's down to us, to our good behaviour, to win it. I don't count too much on United feeling the pressure. I count more on my team than on any weakness of them."

"He will be better now because he is a young boy, 19 years old and you expect him to be stronger. When he will be really back on the competitive side of the game he will be stronger. When you have a big injury before the age of 20 normally you come back and you develop normally. That is why the big question mark about him was whether he would be back fully fit physically. That is now sorted out in a positive way, the rest is just a question of playing games.", säger Wenger.

Men det är inte bara walsarens goda fysik som har bidragit till att han nu är redo för spel igen. Wenger imopneras av hur Ramsey har hanterat den åtta månader långa skadofrånvaron.

"He has dealt with it very well but he could talk much better about it than I can. Certainly he has been very down for a long period but on the outside signs he has shown he is always highly motivated and determined to work hard. It feels good to have him back because it happened one year ago basically, his injury. He had to be very patient and he must feel himself very good to be back.", säger Wenger.

Vidare säger Wenger att Ramsey inte kommer ha samma problem med skador efteråt som Eduardo som inte kunde rätta ut sin fot riktigt efter sitt benbrott. Detta gjorde att han tvingades till en andra operation. Vad Ramsey behöver i nuläget är matcher.

"Last year at this time we were six or seven points behind Chelsea, who were so consistent. Now if we beat Sunderland we come back to within a point of United, who have to play Liverpool without Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, who have been so strong for them in defence. So something can happen at Liverpool, because they hate each other! If we win our game in hand against Tottenham, we can be on top - and that's why I said we feel that we can win the title."

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Björn Alm2011-03-05 15:20:00