Wenger: Jack will get Premier chance
Arsene Wenger insists Jack Wilshere will soon get a chance to impress in the Premier League after he spearheaded another Arsenal Europa League victory last night.
Wilshere played a big part in the decisive goal as the Gunners beat Red Star Belgrade in Serbia, exchanging passes with Theo Walcott who then teed up Olivier Giroud to score a stunning overhead kick.
The 1-0 win keeps up Arsenal’s perfect start to Group H as a spirited Red Star team hit the post in the first-half and tested Petr Cech on a number of occasions before having Milan Rodic sent off in the closing stages.
Wilshere is yet to appear in the Premier League this season but Wenger said that will soon change.
“He will get a chance in the Premier League, don’t worry about that,” he said.
“I think at the moment it’s going like that. He got a big kick in the first half on his ankle but he managed to get through the 90 minutes and games of that intensity will, of course, help him a lot.” Wenger hailed his inexperienced team for performing in the hostile Rajko Mitic Stadium. “They showed character as well,” he said when asked if his young players had performed well.
“It is not easy to express yourself at 18 years of age. To play in such a heated atmosphere shows how much resilience to stress (the players have), which is an important quality at our level.
“It was a very difficult game with high intensity in a very heated and supportive atmosphere for the local team and we kept going and trying to win the game, and them as well in fairness.”