Wenger: 'I am completely focused on doing well'

Last updated : 21 September 2011 By Chris Parry

"I am completely focused on doing well. I can understand that people are unhappy and criticise, but you know as well as I know people are very quick to go overboard.

"I accept critics and I do not say it doesn't matter that people criticise us, and like anybody else, I prefer it when they say I am good.

"When we do well we take all the plaudits, so we have to take as well all the blame when it doesn't go as well - but we have as well on both sides to take some distance.

"When it goes well we must not completely believe what people say and when it does not go as well, we must not completely believe it."

"I have just managed 14 years at this club and I have kept them 14 years in the Champions League and I hope it lasts another 14 years."

"Shrewsbury were direct, but not without technique and had some dangerous situations. One-all at half-time was not too bad for us. In the second half, we took over and then it was all us."

"We played a young team with a mixture of young players and experienced players. We took a gamble and it worked because you could see some players that we haven't seen so much, like Oxlade-Chamberlain and Coquelin, have done extremely well and that is positive for the future."