Arsene Wenger says that despite the win at Man City being based on a more defensive system, he won’t change his style of play completely.

A deeper-lying Arsenal stifled the champions at the Etihad but the Arsenal manager insists that his side won’t simply park the bus in every game, they’ll look to attack the way his teams always have.

He also admitted that he listened to his players ahead of the trip to Manchester last weekend, and that was a factor in how the Gunners played that day.

“You have to listen to your players,” he said, “and preparing for the game against City, I felt they needed to reassure themselves. And so they lined up more defensively.

I was not surprised by the result. I believe in these guys, but one of the biggest jobs as a manager is the mental challenge, picking them up after a bad result and making them believe they are good enough to achieve everything that you believe they’re capable of.

“One of my major tasks is to make them understand how good they are and how good I think they are. And that’s obviously something that plays on their minds. A

“huge part of the job is making them mentally solid and obviously results last year when we were beaten away from home left mental scars.”
Sounds like the players didnt feel to confident of attacking City from the off (which is true) and wanted to be a bit more cautious.