Summary
BLACKBURN 1 ARSENAL 2 ARSENE Wenger said his side had to shrug off an attack of nerves before goals from Theo Walcott and Andrey Arshavin saw them past battling Blackburn at Ewood Park. Wenger's dislike of the home side's qualities are well known and he insisted his side had approached the game with concerns after a bruising battle in the equivalent fixture last season.
Wenger said: "We had a good start but in my opinion we were too nervous dealing with the game of Blackburn. Who would not be unsettled by the kind of game Blackburn gave us? "Last year we had bad memories here and because we knew they would play the kind of game we don't like we had not enough con-fidence to deal with that.See the full content of this document
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Wenger: We Had to Beat the Jitterbug
"In the second half I felt we were calmer. We put the ball well on the ground and controlled it better and it was just a question of time...
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