Arsene Wenger has insisted Jack Wilshere will soon get his opportunity to impress in the Premier League after he spearheaded another Europa League victory as Arsenal won 1-0 at Red Star Belgrade.
“He will get a chance in the Premier League, don’t worry about that,” he said. “I think at the moment it’s going like that. He got a big kick in the first half on his ankle but he managed to get through the 90 minutes and games of that intensity will, of course, help him a lot.”
Wenger witnessed the attitude of his squad questioned by Watford captain Troy Deeney after the Hornets’ 2-1 Premier League win over Arsenal on Saturday.
Wenger, as well as both Per Mertesacker and Wilshere, have defended the players since then and the Frenchman hailed his inexperienced team for performing in the potentially intimidating atmosphere of the Rajko Mitic stadium.
“I agree with you not only in their performance, but they showed character as well,” he said when asked if his young players had performed well. “It is not easy to express yourself at 18 years of age. To play in such a heated atmosphere shows how much resilience to stress [the players have], which is an important quality at our level.
“I believe that it was a very difficult game with high intensity in a very heated and supportive atmosphere for the local team and we kept going and trying to win the game, and them as well in fairness.”
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