PSV defeat worries Wenger
21 Feb 2007 - 08:24:25
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger still believes his side are on course for the Champions League quarter-finals, despite their 1-0 loss away to PSV Eindhoven.
A second-half Edison Mendez strike secured a narrow advantage for the Dutch side to take back to the Emirates Stadium for the second leg of the Champions League first knockout round tie.
Wenger said afterwards: "I feel we are in a tricky situation because we have to score two without conceding.
"But from what I have seen, we have enough confidence and belief that we can achieve that.
"I feel we had a decent first half and created chances to be in front. We had chances in the first half to kill the game and we could not do it.
"But what happened in the second half is difficult to say. We dropped our level of cohesion, our passing and fluency went. We created barely anything.
"We lost the game down to a good second half from PSV and we could have been punished more on the counter-attack. We looked a little bit out of rhythm in the second half.
"The way we conceded the goal was disappointing. I felt that mistakes were made much before the shot."
PSV coach Ronald Koeman added: "We are in a fantastic position and if we play at the same level as in the second half when we go to London, then we have a chance."