Arsenal 1 Borussia Dortmund 2: We should have taken a draw – Wenger

Arsène Wenger felt his Arsenal side should
have settled for a draw after Robert
Lewandowski's late goal handed Borussia
Dortmund victory and threw Champions
League Group F wide open.
The visitors started the brighter of the two sides in
north London and took the lead in the 16th minute
through Henrikh Mkhitaryan after Aaron Ramsey was
caught in possession on the edge of the box.
Wenger's men worked their way back into the game
and Olivier Giroud slammed home an equaliser
from Bacary Sagna's cross just before half-time.
But the visitors had the final say in north London as
Lewandowski finished off a sweeping counter-attack
in the 82nd minute to leave Dortmund, Napoli and
Arsenal all on six points in Group F.
"It's difficult to take," said Wenger. "Maybe we
weren't at our most fluent best going forward but at
the moment we were on top we lost the game
because we wanted to win it so much.
"We forgot that even if you cannot win it, don't lose
it. That's why were were caught. It's annoying,
because we put a lot of effort in, but that's it."
The Frenchman conceded that his side were slow out
of the blocks in the first half but had hoped they
would show the maturity not push forwards too much
late in the game.
"We started hesitantly, not with full drive and we
were 1-0 down," he continued.
"It's difficult because when you don't start well it's
[hard] to get back into the game, so we did very well.
"In the second half we were on top of it but we just
forgot to be cautious. They are a team that is good in
transition from defence to offence and we were not
cautious enough. We could have won the ball and we
paid for it.
"We should have settled for a draw tonight, and we
absolutely should not havelost the game [even]
when we could not win it."
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