Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has described the scheduling of his side's fixtures as cruel.

The Gunners are set to play three games in six days this week. The North London side played West Bromwich Albion on Monday night; following that, they play Belarusian side BATE Borisov on Thursday evening and then they have a Sunday noon kick-off against Brighton.

"At the moment I will say the schedule for us is a bit cruel," Wenger told a news conference. "When you look at the [Premier League] schedule over the weekend, I think there was some room for us to be different.

"For example, yesterday we had Brighton-Newcastle on television. They could have played tonight and we could have played yesterday. So for us the time is very short. But television decides, and I don't complain about that. But what I want to say, for the [team] selection it has an impact for me."