Wenger: Arsenal defence lacks leadership & stability

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has spoken for the first about the club defense problems after losing more goals this season from set pieces. This came this Sunday after the Gunners allowed Liverpool to come back from 2-1 to draw 2-2 in the dieing minutes of the game.
“Mertesacker gives his best and, on the corner, it is more organisational and a collective problem because nobody really talks,” he told reporters. “They should. Maybe they do talk but it doesn’t look like that when you look at the pictures.
“Of course it’s important to have someone organising. Sometimes it’s just one yard forward or backward that makes a difference. You want somebody to take the leadership there.

“[Mertesacker] had a difficult start to the season but he’s been much sharper. Many people had a go at him for the corner but I looked at it and he had no chance to get that ball in the zone where he was.
“I don’t know [why he ducked]. Maybe because he sees he hasn’t got the ball and somebody jumps over him and it’s a reflex but I don’t think he could have got the ball.
“It’s not easy for him. When [Laurent] Koscielny will come back and [Mathieu] Debuchy being back, we will be more stable. We had no stability at the back.

“It’s difficult for players at the World Cup. You don’t see them before November, really. It is difficult to get the hunger to go to Stoke and win or Sunderland, having won the World Cup.