Twice Arsenal took the lead but in the end went down 4-3 at Blackburn Rovers whose second half performance bullied the Gunners out of three points. Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger told the club's official website his team are struggling to concentrate at the back for ninety minutes.
"It's difficult to explain. I feel overall we created many chances, even in the second half. It just looked like we had a lack of focus for what we knew they were good at - corners and free-kicks.
" You cannot say you are not worried (defensively) when you see the performance we put in today. It's just not defensively solid enough. When you are 2-1 in front against Blackburn and you know that you are solid defensively, we will score goals.
"It was not all negative today, that is the frustrating thing. There were a lot of positives as well, we just didn't bring the focus to get anything out of the game. At the moment we do not have the capability to focus defensively for 90 minutes to win games. It is important you do not give cheap goals away like we did.
"The spirit in the team is quite willing but if you look at the number of goals we have conceded it is just not good enough. You cannot come here and concede four goals the way we did today. On the other hand I believe that the group will take off but it is important that we can get results.
As to talk about the Frenchman's future at The Emirates.
"Speculation is part of modern life, there is nothing I can do about that. My future is focused on me giving the best for the Club."
