Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has revisited the smoking incident which saw him fined and dropped by Arsene Wenger.

Arsenal had travelled to Southampton on New Years' Day in 2015, but came away without a share of the points after two costly errors from Szczesny.

His mistakes allowed Sadio Mane and Dusan Tadic to score in the 2-0 loss, in a match where Wenger was confronted by an Arsenal supporter on the pitch in the dying moments.

And the intensity of the fixture all got too much for Szczesny.

"Back at that time I was smoking regularly and the boss knew it very well," Szczesny told the Arsenal Nation podcast. "He just didn't want anybody smoking in the dressing rooms and I knew that also.

"Because of the emotion of the game, I had a cigarette after the game when the team was still in. I went in the corner of the showers, so it was at the other end of the dressing room and nobody could see me, and I lit one up.

"Somebody saw me, it wasn't even the boss himself, and just reported it back to the boss. I saw him a couple of days later, he asked me if that was true and I said, 'Yes'. He fined me and that was the end of it.

"He then said, 'Look, you're going to be out of the team for a little bit' but there was no big bust-ups or big confrontations. I was very professional about it."