but Arsene Wenger says it would be foolish to sit back
and simply defend.
Arsene Wenger would gladly accept a point from Arsenal's trip
to Bayern Munich on Wednesday but admits they cannot afford
to simply sit back and defend.
The Gunners kept their hopes of reaching the Champions
League knockout stages alive with a 2-0 victory over Pep
Guardiola's side on matchday three and have managed a draw
and a victory in their last two visits to the Allianz Arena.
Bayern drew a blank against Eintracht Frankfurt last Friday but
Wenger believes playing too defensively against the Bundesliga
leaders could prove fatal.
"I would sign today to take a point but to sit off Bayern," the
Arsenal manager said. "But with their offensive quality, that
would be difficult to maintain for 90 minutes.
"We have to relieve the pressure whenever we can and try to
score goals. That is the structure of our team, to attack.
"If you get our players only to defend then I do not think we will
be so efficient. We have to play every time we can."
Arsenal stretched their good recent run of form to five wins in
six matches with a 3-0 victory away to Swansea City on
Saturday and Wenger is confident his side is continuing to grow
in strength.
"It was impressive because if you look at our away results since
the start of the season, we have won at Crystal Palace and
Watford, at Newcastle and at Swansea," he added. "So it looks
like the team has stabilised and is growing as a unit. So let's
grow even more.
"We are certainly more stable defensively but that is from the
start of January. If you look at the points we have taken from
January 1, we have taken more points than anyone else."
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