Gunner Walcott urges teammates to forget Sunday's 0-1 home defeat to magpies and move on

Walcott urges teammates to forget defeat

Gunner Walcott urges teammates to forget Sunday's 0-1 home defeat to magpies and move on

Theo Walcott maintains Arsenal have the perfect opportunity to banish the memory of Sunday's miserable home defeat to Newcastle when they head to relegation-battlers Wolves.

The Gunners missed the opportunity to close the gap on Premiership leaders Chelsea as they lost 1-0 against the Magpies, with Andy Carroll's late first-half header proving decisive.

However, the Gunners boss has challenged his side to show strength of character to get their title bid back on track with a positive result at Molineux.

Walcott believes having another match so quickly could prove the perfect tonic as Arsenal look to avoid a third straight defeat.

Speaking at an event in central London, Walcott said: "Football is a great game, you have ups and downs, with clubs like us slipping up yesterday.

"However, there are plenty of teams in it still, but we are not going to look too far ahead. "We just want to concentrate on every single game, and take a step when we can.

"It is in the past now, we lost, but the great thing about football is there is another game around the corner. We have got a game on Wednesday and we can amend the disappointment which we had yesterday."

Walcott has looked sharp since his return to action after suffering ankle ligament damage when on England duty against Switzerland in September.

The 21-year-old netted a fine breakaway goal in the Champions League defeat at Shakhtar Donetsk and was unfortunate not to add to his tally of seven against Newcastle when an angled drive came back off the underside of the crossbar.

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