Arsenal on Wednesday night boosted their UEFA Champions League hope with a deserved 3-0 victory over West Ham.
"We had to work for it, it has obviously been a challenging few weeks to be honest", he said.
Going into the game, the teams had just two league wins between them since the start of February, with Arsenal seven points adrift of the top four at kick-off.
"I wouldn't just say the goals (helped his confidence), you could see it was slowly starting to come back", the England worldwide told Arsenal's official site. They had lost four out of five Premier League games before Sunday's 2-2 draw with Manchester City, which Wenger said had lifted the mood.
Ozil received the ball on the edge of the 18-yard box and curled his shot under Randolph. "Going forward we are good but defensively recently we have not been efficient enough".
Defeat for the Hammers was their fourth successive loss and leaves them in a perilous position just above the relegation places and falling fast, piling the pressure on manager Slaven Bilic.
"Confidence is low at the moment and you can see that when we go a goal down, but we know we can play well, as we did when we beat them [Swansea] 4-1 earlier in the season".
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With only the visits of Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool to come, the Swansea game and next weekend's trip to basement-side Sunderland are "massively important" for Bilic, if his team are to put daylight between themselves and the bottom. Elneny does not possess the same intelligence in possession but, in tandem with Xhaka, he was able to inject sufficient tempo into this performance to help secure three precious points. One win will change everything for us. "The next two games, against Swansea and then Sunderland, are huge".
"We have a little handicap on the points front".
"I have had those kinds of games before and some of the players have had those kinds of games", he said.
The Frenchman was the target of a protest in which fans refused to take their seats until the 13th minute - a reference to the number of years they have gone without a Premier League title.
"It's not being negative, it's being realistic". Best way for us to get the confidence back is with a win.
Welbeck then lashed wide from a tight angle before a lull in the game which lasted nearly until half-time, when the hosts finally started to up the tempo.
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