Arsenal improved

           The Swans were not allowed a single shot on target by a defence that did not include captain Thomas Vermaelen.The German was clearly shocked by the Gunners' defending in their 2-1 defeat in the north London derby and responded with clean sheets against Bayern Munich and Swansea City.Sometimes as a player you have a different view and you can't believe what we did as a defensive unit," admitted Mertesacker. Sometimes you need to learn from games and that was very important for us.
There was a lot of room for improvement after the Tottenham game - we saw a lot of things on television. Sometimes we didn't choose the right direction and we just lacked a bit of defensive work as a unit.