Wenger: 'You do not always lose when you dominate games'

"At 2-0, at half-time, you could feel amongst the players that what happened last week had an impact in their head. When Villa came back to 2-1, it was in interesting test for my team.

"We could have crumbled or we could score again - and we did the latter. We got a good mental response. This team is very interesting because they are on the same wavelength in the way they want to play.

"But they also fight for each other. I thought we had played well against Tottenham, had a lot of possession against Braga and we responded well again today.

"You do not always lose when you dominate games and we played well. Villa had a good comeback in the second half but we managed to find the response to come out on top."