Wenger: 'We have to make sure we respond well'

We have to make sure we respond well.

West Brom played well on Saturday but we made it difficult for ourselves because we were not at our usual level. Not defensively, nor offensively.

Overall everything was difficult for us - passing the ball, winning the ball back, winning the one against ones - and we got what we deserved which was zero points. We didn't deserve more.

The positive is that we did fight until the last minute but it was just not good enough at that level to get three points.

Manuel Almunia was criticised for his mistake but there were question marks over many players. We made massive mistakes defensively and were collectively poor.

It was a bad team performance and we have to analyse why and make sure we respond well because we have an important game in Belgrade on Tuesday.

It would have been even more disappointing on Saturday if Chelsea had won because they would be seven points clear of us. But we can't look at the results of the other teams, we have to turn up with our own performance and we didn't do that against West Brom.

Next week's trip to Stamford Bridge is important of course and I believe we will see that Saturday's performance was an exception - until then we had very, very good games.