Football: Wenger calls for more urgency

LONDON: Arsenal’s season depends on players showing more individual urgency to cut out defensive mistakes and break a cycle of poor results, according to manager Arsene Wenger. The north Londoners have taken just four points out of a possible 15 so far in the Premier League and conceded two own-goals in a 4-3 defeat against Blackburn Rovers at the weekend. “It’s very important to break the cycle,” said Wenger. “A lack of concentration, communication, and individual urgency is behind the goals we have conceded.”

Published in The Express Tribune, September 21^st, 2011.