BIG MOUTHS

Last updated : 15 April 2003 By editor
WENGER

"We can beat them -- it has happened before,"

"We will need a good defensive performance and also we want to create more chances than we did against Sheffield United. But I believe in my players. We have lost just one more game this season than at the same stage last season. We have only lost away to Blackburn (Rovers) since December, we are fighting for the championship for the third year running and we are in the FA Cup final for the third year running, so we deserve the credit."

LJUNGBERG

"We are just concentrating on Wednesday's game and if we can win that, then the rest of the season looks great,United have beaten Liverpool and Newcastle very well and they are a team in form but hopefully we can have a good performance as well and can win in the end."

HENRY

"They pulled off a great performance, which followed a win over Liverpool where they had the luck to play against 10 men for 85 minutes. Now if we manage to beat them, we'll be in front again. But, above all, I think this is a match we have not to lose. We have our destiny in our own hands. It must also not be forgotten that they have played a match more than us.”

GIO VAN BRONCKHORST

"They have a lot to do in the return against Real but they are too professional to have it on their minds when they face us on Wednesday. There is disappointment here that we let the gap between ourselves and United close. But we know everything is still in our hands and nobody is thinking about anything other than winning it."

And finally Mr Broken hand chips in.

"I can't split the teams because they both have great players, but the Premiership might be decided by this game" said Shearer. "United are on a run and are in full flow, while we don't know how Arsenal will be affected by yesterday's FA Cup semi-final. We would have loved to have been in that title race ourselves but we blew it in our last two games against Everton and United. The worst thing that could have happened to us was United getting stuffed by Real Madrid last week in the Champions League because when good players like theirs are criticised they want to respond, and they came back and gave their answer against us."


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