After an important Arsenal win, Olivier Giroud jokes about cheering on West Ham when they face fourth-place Liverpool.
"I am not in politics, I am in sport".
The trouble for Stoke was that Arsenal were already 2-0 up by this stage, having scored a magnificent goal through Mesut Ozil, who converted a sublime forward pass threaded through the Stoke defence by Alexis Sanchez in the 55thminute.
In all fairness, this isn't the best of the Potters squad we've seen but god I hate Stoke. "It's my style of play and nobody can make me change that", he added.
Meanwhile, Wenger has opted to rotate his XI from which started the 2-0 win over Southampton on Wednesday night at Hector Bellerin, Laurent Koscielny, Francis Coquelin and Olivier Giroud come in for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Kieran Gibbs, Aaron Ramsey and Danny Welbeck.
Arsene Wenger insists he never questioned the character of his Arsenal side as they continued their turnaround with a vital win at Southampton.
"I wish we'd found this before", Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi said", but we have three games left". "We have 69 [points] tonight, let's go to 72 on Tuesday", he said.
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"I was suspicious of the noise of the ball".
Although they have not won there since 2010, losing on four of their eight visits, Wenger's men will be hopeful of ending that sorry sequence so long as Alexis Sanchez is in the team. I got to the fourth official after it had been confirmed.
"I didn't plan to take him off, he asked to come off", explained Wenger.
The Chilean delivered yet another excellent display, not only scoring with a deflected strike but also producing a wonderful assist for Ozil, who also had a fine game.
Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "Them scoring just before half-time was obviously a blow to us and then, conceding the second goal, it is hard from that point onwards".
"That was frustrating, and then second half we were chasing a game which was hard to come back into".
"They made it a bit more physical in the second half and we had to find some resources to keep our nerve and continue with our desire to play."?With his team in fifth place with two games remaining, including the final match of the season at the Emirates next Sunday against Everton Wenger discussed the chances of ending what has been a turbulent league season on a high.
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