Arsene Wenger maintains that, despite our performance against Olympiacos which saw us lose 3-2 at home, Arsenal are still a superior team.

In fact, that’s why he thinks we lost.

Wenger’s argument is that because we’re better, visiting teams from Europe, similar to Cup matches, defend better and are more adequately prepared to deal with our attacking style of football. Which begs the question: if they can adapt, why don’t we?

Speaking ahead of the Premier League clash against Manchester United, the boss was a little tetchy to say the least and insisted that Arsenal are still better than Olypiacos – our defending just wasn’t up to scratch.

“I believe what has changed in Europe is we play against teams who accept the superiority of English teams and defend well and try to catch us on the break,” he said.

“It is a bit like when you play a cup game against a Championship team and lose because they accept at the start you will have the ball and try just to defend well and get you on the counter-attack. This happened to us.”

I’m a huge fan of Wenger but even I wish sometimes he would just call a spade a spade and say we were terrible. We weren’t prepared, we were scoring goals for them and we essentially didn’t look as if we knew what we were doing.

If it was a one off blip, I for one would understand Wenger’s flippant tone. However, this is a reoccurring nightmare, especially in Europe, and we need to look at ourselves if it’s ever going to stop.