UNITED KINGDOM: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger defends his priorities but wants to win everything

Record ID: 860035

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger defends his priorities but wants to win everything
  • Date: 29th October 2012
  • Summary: FILE (LONDON, UK) (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ARSENAL TRAINING WATCHED BY MANAGER ARSENE WENGER
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  • Story Text: Speaking on the eve of a League Cup fourth round game away to Reading, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on Monday (October 29) defended his placing of the competition last of five top priorities, but said he still wants to do well.
    At the club's annual general meeting last week, Wenger said his five priorities were, in order: to win the Premier League; to win the Champions League; to qualify again for the Champions League; to win the Football Association Cup; and to win the League (Capital One) Cup.
    Arsenal beat Queens Park Rangers 1-0 in the Premier League last Saturday, ending a run of two successive defeats to Norwich City and a Champions League loss to Schalke 04 in seven days.
    They are sixth in the Premier League with 15 points from nine games and next face Manchester United on Saturday (November 3). They are second in Group B of the Champions League with six points from three matches.
    Wenger told Arsenal TV: "What we do is we try to fight as hard as we can to stay in all the five as long as we can and if you have to make a choice you make it as late as possible. It, it is, for example, Capital One Cup is in a period of a scene where you have to sometimes make decisions, choices -- championship, Champions League -- but we want to win, of course. But I just gave a frank and honest opinion about how I think, where I think priorities are, but of course ideally you want to deal well with all the five."
    Arsenal beat League One (third tier) side Coventry 6-1 at home in the 3rd round of the League Cup, while Reading defeated QPR 3-2 away.
    Arsenal have been without a trophy since 2005.
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