Wenger defends Bendtner
Arsene Wenger has leapt to the defence of striker Nicklas Bendtner after his latest poor performance against AS Roma.
The Denmark international has come in for criticism from some sections of the Arsenal support for his disappointing form, but the boss believes he is improving as a player and will rediscover his touch.
Wenger insisted he would be more worried were his frontmen not getting themselves in the positions to score.
"He is 21 years old, playing at the top level and creating chances. The problem at that level is if you don't create chances,'' said the Arsenal boss.
"He wants to work and he is becoming very professional.
"Before he was a little bit easy going. He realises now what it takes to me a top-class player. He works very well and for me he has a bright future.''
Wenger - whose side have kept seven clean sheets from the last nine - insists there is no reason to hit the panic button.
"We do not put any special pressure on a guy who misses a goal chance. The bigger you make a problem, the bigger it becomes. We remind them they have the quality,'' said Wenger,
"I remember teams who concede goals in the final five minutes and the more you say to them 'we don't want to concede goals in the last five minutes', the more it becomes a problem and the more you concede goals.
"So you just have to be natural, spontaneous and believe in what you do and your ability.''
Wenger added: "Sometimes you have to take a distance from a problem and just think 'lets play well'.
"We have scored plenty of goals and it happens to any team to have a spell where you score a little bit less.''
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