ArsAne Wenger remains "convinced" that Arsenal can qualify for the Champions League but he warned that there clearly was no more any margin for error after a Bacary Sagna error helped Robin van Persie to draw his Emirates Stadium return with Manchester United's equaliser in Sunday's 1-1 draw. Wenger talked of the "disappointed love" that the house crowd had felt with regard to Van Persie, who obtained a pre-match guard of honour with his United team-mates from the Arsenal players to indicate his club's 20th league title. His 43rd-minute objective, scored from the penalty spot after Sagna's bad move and misjudged healing tackle, was his 29th of the season. Van Persie later visited the Arsenal dressing room to see his old friends but Wenger's upset was situated in him being "treated effectively by our defenders" on the area. "I genuinely believe that equaliser played a huge part in this game because we are put by it in a difficult position," he explained. "We had to open ourselves fully up and set every thing forward and sometimes slightly more with power than with technique. We opened ourselves up for counterattack where we might have lost the game. "Sagna is very disappointed. He is a new player who provides absolutely every thing in most game and I believe he made a poor move that could happen and maybe after, he panicked a little because he maybe desired to restore too soon what he did. He'd time to handle but he has preserved us so often times. It was unfortunate that it happened today." Strategy slipped to fourth place and, if Tottenham Hotspur were to overcome Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 8 May, Wenger's staff may find they do not have control of the Champions League fate. Before that, though, Chelsea should visit United. It's fiendishly tight. "If we win our activities, it'll be enough," Wenger argued, "and I am persuaded we will be there. There is no place for losing details however the other groups are in the exact same place. We know we can't drop points." Wenger took issue with the idea that it'd been inevitable that Van Persie would report and he suggested that the value of charges did not weigh as heavily. But he was delighted, generally, with the value that was proven to his former player. He was not thought by "i scored," Wenger said. A penalty was scored by "he. It matters but it's not entirely exactly the same. You usually look at how many goals he has scored with penalties and how many he scored in open play, when you buy a goalscorer. But his penalty was taken by him well. When he chose to simply take the fee that it absolutely was 80% he scores I know. He was our charge taker. He does that well. He does a lot of things perfectly. "He was in our dressing room [after the match] as the food is better in our dressing room than their dressing room. We are opponents [with United] but at the end of the day, we chose to sell him. You want us to make a guard of honour and to respect the winners but you've to simply accept as well that respect exists after the game. You want to give absolutely anything for the 90 minutes and, following the game, you could still speak to each other." United now know that they can't reach an archive 96-point Premier League end and Sir Alex Ferguson lamented missed chances and the referee Phil Dowd's choices to book five of his people. "When we had a foul, he is reserved us right away," Ferguson said. "We have one of the best disciplinary records in the country. For Manchester United to have five players arranged, I really do not genuinely believe that is right. Arsenal tripped at an incredible pace, very intense, with plenty of fights and the umpire just could not hold up."
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