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Wenger: “I learn from every single game”

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Arsene Wenger’s first match in charge of the Gunners was at Blackburn Rovers back in October, 1996 and has currently managed 998 games since, during his 17 year spell at the club.

He will reach this incredible milestone on Saturday when his side face Chelsea in a crucial London derby, and while he is aware of the landmark, he insists his focus is getting the three points which would close the gap between themselves and Chelsea at the top.

Wenger told Arsenal Player: â€śIt makes you feel ‘where did the time go?’ It looks to me like I started yesterday, I can’t believe it is such a long time.

“Why? Because you’re always focused on looking forward to the next game and when you look back you think I made quite a distance there. Despite that, your only interest is the next game, our drug is the next game, the hope for the next game, the desire to win the next one.

“You go step by step and finally when you look back it’s a long time. I would just like to say for me it’s an honour to manage a club of this dimension for such a long time and I would like to thank everybody who is involved in the Club for giving me such a confidence for such a long time.”

“You learn from every game,” added Wenger. “You learn more from the lost games than the games won. Certainly because you go into deeper analysis, you question yourself more, you question the players more and you learn basically the most from the higher the level goes up, the more you see the limitations of your team and your players.

“You learn the most in the biggest games when the pressure is there, when the talent is against you and when the pace of the game is at the top, top level. This is where you learn.”

Wenger then was allowed to reflect on his favourite game from his 999, and two in particular stood out for the Frenchman.

“Maybe the Barcelona game on the Champions League night [in 2011], maybe winning the first title against Everton, which was so important,” he said. “I hope that the next game will be my favourite game.”

 

By Phil Wellbrook

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