Watch the goals on the links below.Tempers were running high after the game, with Arsenal furious with the referees decision not to give a penalty to Arsenal, which could have changed the game in Arsenals favour. Carlos Vela was booked for a dive when he was clearly brought down, but this cannot mask the poor perfomance from the London side.
Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas was brought off in the 69th minute and Wenger said:
"Fabregas has a hamstring injury so it's difficult to predict how long he will be out for. But he will definitely be out for the weekend."While Emmanuel Eboue was also added to the injury list after a nasty challenge on him from behind. Wenger said:
"Eboue will be out for a few weeks because he took a very bad tackle, unpunished. It is a medial knee ligament injury."Wenger wasn't finished there however. He went on to claim his team are in an unlucky period of their season which will pass while he critisized UEFA's additional officials and branded the system "useless".
"We are going through a period where we have bad luck, we had Eboue kicked off the park without any punishment and we also had the penalty turned down.
"What was the fifth official doing? We have another proof that it is absolutely useless, this system.
"Then when we were 10 against 11, we made a mistake at the back, there was a minimum of communication and that's where we were punished."
"[Not having qualfied yet] is a concern, but we'll make it."
Defender Johan Djourou added:
"It's very hard to take."
The two goals came late on in the game - both in counter attacks from Braga in which Arsenal were left short at the back. Clinical finishing played a big part as you can see above, but Arsenal really should have been looking for a simple win against the Portugese club.
There will be calls again for Wengers reign to be over at Arsenal; extremist views, but views which are becoming more understandable as the dissapointing results keep coming in. It is hard to take for the patient Arsenal fans everywhere, but Wenger knows this. The bad results may be a wake-up call - a call that will alert Wenger to the need for improvements to his squad; a new goalkeeper? Stronger defenders? Or maybe it is simply a physcological problem.
Arsenal have good quality players, and they have a manager widely regarded as a football genius. It is odd then that they have so many weaknesses, or rather such a large single weakness.
