Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has backed Granit Xhaka to learn from his dismissal against Swansea without the need for him to intervene.

The Swiss midfielder received a straight red card with 20 minutes remaining of Arsenal's 3-2 win on Saturday for a diving challenge on Swansea's Modou Barrow.

It was the eighth red card Xhaka has received in two and a half years at Arsenal and Borussia Monchengladbach.

When it was put to him that eight red cards in such a short space of time suggested Xhaka had a disciplinary problem, Wenger replied: "It is one. We are not responsible for the red cards he got somewhere else.

"He made a foul that could have got him a yellow card, that could have got him a red card. It was not meant to hurt anybody. It was just a late tackle to stop a counter attack that has been punished.

"I feel that he is intelligent enough to analyse that."