Pain in Spain for Wenger as injury problems mount

ARSENE WENGER refused to get drawn into Alex Ferguson’s latest round of mind games and instead preferred to concentrate on Arsenal’s defensive injury worries.

The Gunners flew into Spain for tonight's decisive Champions League clash against Valencia without goalkeeper David Seaman, Martin Keown (both hamstring) and Ashley Cole (hernia). Sol Campbell (Achilles) has only a 40% chance of being fit according to Wenger and skipper Patrick Vieira (knee) is rated 50-50.

So the last thing Wenger who will take charge of his 50th Champions League tie needed was to have to answer Ferguson's latest jibes, after the Man Utd manager accused Arsenal of "triumphalism" in his latest war of words.