Wenger cannot explain Gunners loss

Arsene Wenger struggled to explain how Arsenal slipped to a first defeat at the Emirates Stadium as relegation-battlers West Ham picked up three crucial points.

The Gunners dominated and created a number of clear chances but a combination of great goalkeeping from Robert Green and wayward finishing made them pay, with Bobby Zamora lobbing in a fine effort during first-half stoppage time for the Hammers.

Wenger said: "We should have scored 10 and in the end we lost 1-0, so it is very difficult to understand how it happened."

He added: "I can never remember a game like that. It was one-way traffic from the first minute to the last.

"We missed early chances, especially one against one with the keeper and then there was always more pressure on the next one to finish it off.

"In the end, they scored one which looked to me offside. It is very difficult to find a logical explanation to our defeat because we produced the performance I expected.

"That is a little bit of the disease we have shown all season - creating, creating, creating, and not finishing.

"When you lose a game like that you are tempted to blame the players who missed the chances, but we just have to keep going and not put too much pressure on the players who missed.

"Maybe when they scored the first, we would have scored six. West Ham were there for the taking and we could not manage to do it.

"That is part of football. When you do not take advantages of the chances you have early in the game, it can become a problem."