Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger believes the English Premier League is becoming too defensive as the lower teams learn how to solely defend against the top teams.

Wenger says that most managers have a mentality of going out not to lose rather than to win and the adoption of a 4-5-1 approach is a major example.

"It is maybe one of the weaknesses of the top Premier League sides this year that teams have learned only to defend away from home," he said.

"The leading clubs have all struggled with that, even Manchester United, with all their offensive force.

"The Premier League has definitely lost something. When I arrived here in 1996, everybody had a go at you and there was space up and down the flanks.

"Sometimes you lost the game, but you could see more chances than today.

"You go back 10 years and everybody played a strict 4-4-2. This year I cannot remember any team coming here with two strikers, except Hull who played like that just at the start, but slowly they came back and became like the other teams."