Thierry Henry reacts to Arsenal's UCL loss to Lens & Saka's recurring injury!

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Thierry, you kind of said to me, my team are doing well.
Yeah, they are in the league.
They're surely doing better than yours, I'm sorry.
We just saw that before.
But I told you also that Lens is a tough place, right?
You did tell me that, yes.
Thank you.
They create a lot through their wing-back.
They put pressure with their wing-back.
They don't allow you to play inside.
The atmosphere is rocking.
It's a tough place to go and win.
So that's exactly what happened to us, to Arsenal tonight.
And away from home in Europe, nothing is easy.
This guy that you see on the screen had a hell of a finish on the second goal.
They fight for every single ball, that team.
They don't often lose at home.
And they showed that tonight.
They didn't start well this season.
But Lens is a very capable team at home.
You said that to me off-air, didn't you?
You said they could cause Arsenal some problems today.
And they really did.
I'm not surprised with the results.
Is a bigger problem today something you mentioned?
Saka's gone off engine.
You mentioned that last week.
That you think the only criticism you can have in some way
is that he's actually played too much football.
Is that actually more of a problem than the result
considering who Arsenal are playing at the weekend?
You can obviously be surprised away from home in a Champions League.
It happened to me, it happened to you, it happened to everybody around the table.
It's tough.
It's tough to win away from home in Europe.
Now, you lose.
It can happen.
But you also, it looks like you might have lost Bukayo Saka.
And so, people were talking about Rodri not playing at the weekend.
People were talking about a lot of stuff.
Suddenly, you don't have your, for me in my eyes, the main, main Arsenal right now
playing against Man City at the weekend.
I mean, we're not going too far.
It looks like it.
But again, it's going to be the job of Adrien Keita, the job of Trossard,
the job of Kai Havertz that came to show that he can, you know,
make sure that we're not going to think about Bukayo
if he's not playing at the weekend.
So, that's another thing.
But like you said, it wasn't so much criticism.
It's the only thing that you can say about Bukayo
is that he's been playing everything.
And at one point, you're going to hit a wall.
And it's going to be a bit too much.
And it was maybe physically a bit too much tonight
because I don't know exactly what happened
because we don't have the diagnostic story of what's happening with him.
If it's a muscle injury, if it was a knock or whatever.
But obviously, he's going to be missed.
How long he's going to be, I don't know.
But we need to find a way to beat.
I'm already there to beat City
because we haven't done that for a very long time in the league.
