Former Arsenal star Robert
Pires has his fingers crossed that the Gunners can overcome their
usual ‘November curse’.
Generally, Arsenal are struck
down by poor form and injuries in November which goes a long way to
wrecking their title hopes and it hasn’t begun too well this time
around either with the injury to key striker Robin van Persie and the absence of fellow strike
man Nicklas Bendtner.
Pires knows that under Arsene
Wenger, Arsenal
have struggled in November but just hopes they can get through to
December without too many worries this season.
“The injuries always seem to have damaged Arsenal in the last few seasons and now again this
is the difficult time between November and December,” Pires
said.
“Teams that suffer a lot of problems during these months often
miss out on winning the league. You play a lot of games, it’s
difficult and it tests the squad.
“But for me, this is a big chance for players like Theo Walcott
and Andrey Arshavin to be even more important and help
Arsenal maintain their strong
start.
“Arshavin is playing so well and the speed of Walcott can damage
and hurt a lot of opponents.
“Arsene Wenger always has a strategy and ideas to overcome
problems in the squad and missing players.
“Now Arsenal are missing some
big players but I believe the club can still have a good season
even though they will be without some attacking players.”