Arsène Wenger: 'We did a professional job today'
ARSÈNE WENGER
...on the performance
"We did a job today in a professional way, I must say, with great focus. Certainly less tidy than we are used to but we knew that one important thing today was to respond and to come back into the dressing room with the points. And we did that in a professional way with a great focus."
...on Almunia's clean sheet
"At the end of the day the fact that you keep a clean sheet is more down today to the quality and the concentration of our team's defending. Two saves and Jens would have had a clean sheet as well. But it's good for the morale of the team and of the keeper, when you come in that you don't concede a goal. It is a very difficult situation when you come in like that, into such a heavy game. I feel that he has a great potential, and that will come out by playing."
...on the decision to drop Lehmann
"I made the decision for today, and then I will make another one for Tuesday. I cannot explain why I have 25 players, why I play the first eleven and not the 14 others every time. So you have to respect that it is private. I have a great respect for Jens Lehmann, he is 100% professional, he just needs a breather."
...on Henry's role
"I asked him today to go more behind the defenders, to come less to the ball, and I felt he did that in a brilliant way. He played, let's say, very efficiently. And he played like a real centre forward today, sometimes he plays a little bit more like a team creater and provider, and today he played more like a centre forward, and I must say I personally liked his game tremendously today."
...on a big week for Arsenal
"Our target is of course a week with three games. And we decided we'll go step by step, lets try to do the maximum in the first one, and the job is done now. Now we go into the second one, with a little bit certainly bigger belief than we had at 14:59 today. That's very important. These players have tremendous hunger, tremendous quality, they won't lie down. We really want to go out Tuesday night and we want to qualify. And then we'll prepare for Chelsea."
...on the next opponents
"We always expect our opponent to be tough and to be at their best level, we cannot speculate on how Rosenborg will be. We want to go through and to go through we want to have a good performance. That's the only way we can approach the game, we cannot think 'OK, it will be easy', because in the Champions League, unfortunately, for us it has never been easy. I feel that they are a team with a great experience in the Champions League as well, and usually they are not frightened to play football."
