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Gilberto: We can save our season
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Gilberto believes Arsenal are in the process of “saving their season”.

Back-to-back defeats at Bolton and Fulham last week put Arsène Wenger’s side under intense pressure. Since then they have responded with a heartening 3-0 win over Tottenham at Emirates Stadium and, on Wednesday, they secured top spot in Champions League Group G with a 0-0 draw in Porto.

“It was a hard game because before we knew we just needed a point to go through,” said the Brazilian. “If you’re not 100 per cent positive in this kind of game then you could make a mistake and life becomes difficult. They caught us on the break and had two good chances to win. We just tried to stop their attacks.

“There has been a lot of pressure on us since we lost to Fulham. I said before the Tottenham game that we had 10 games to decide our season. Really, we needed to save our season.

“We beat Tottenham and tonight we qualified for the next round of the Champions League. Now we have another tough match against Chelsea on Sunday. It won’t be easy to win the game as it’s always difficult to win at Stamford Bridge.”

With Thierry Henry out of the side for a few weeks, Gilberto has assumed the captaincy.

“I’m enjoying it,” he said. “It’s a lot more responsibility for me. I’m very proud of myself for being captain of Arsenal. It shows Arsène has a lot of belief in me. I’m try to help the team, even when I’m not on the pitch, so that they can do the best they can. Most of the time the players respond to me on the pitch when I talk to them.

“This team is more experienced this year compared to last season,” he concluded. “The players are more mature and I think we can still improve.”

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