“I maintain that [it is the best], despite the results, because it is
the most level league,” Wenger said.
“There is not the difference of
quality - for example, between Bayern Munich and the rest of the German
league.
“You have Bayern, Dortmund, then after that there is a big gap.
Dortmund this year are not so much there [at their best] because they
had many injuries.
“I feel that [in England] you can go to Cardiff, anybody, and lose.
Spain was a good league as well, but this season the English league is
the most difficult.
“Maybe we pay a little bit the price for that [due to its] toughness,
the intensity. You cannot rest any player. In every single game you
just have to focus on getting the best team out.”
Wenger says too much has been made of recent Champions League results
and points out that, historically, Premier League clubs have been very
competitive in Europe.
“It is too early to say that there is a trend there,” he said. “If
you look in the last 10 years, the English clubs in the Champions League
have done extremely well.
“After that you have Barcelona and Barcelona is Barcelona. Real
Madrid is Real Madrid. Bayern is Bayern. When you play against these
teams you can lose.
“The Champions League is a championship and a cup. Once you go into
the cup, it can depend on one sending off, on one game. It is very
difficult. At the end of the day, you know that one good team will win
it, but maybe when you look well, this team sometimes was a bit lucky in
one or two games.
“Like last year, everybody said the German league is suddenly the
best league in the world. But that is not more true than this year
because they are the same teams.”
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