Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger gestures during a training session ahead of their Champions League soccer match against Borussia Dortmund, at their training facility in London Colney, north of London November 25, 2014.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger gestures during a training session ahead of their Champions League soccer match against Borussia Dortmund, at their training facility in London Colney, north of London November 25, 2014. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger vowed that he would do everything to keep his side in striking distance from the top.

The Gunners are currently occupying the fifth spot of the Premier League table, and will be looking to perform with more consistency as they enter the second half of the season in January.

"We will fight to be as close as possible [to the top]," Wenger told Arsenal.com.

"We are not in a mode of calculating, we are in a mode of 'let's go to the next game and win it.'

"You give your best and if there is a weakness in front of you, you want to take advantage of it. I don't know if there will be any weakness in front of us, but what I know is that we can give our best until the end of the season to have a chance to do it."

"I believe that there is a deficit between the potential we have shown and the number of points we have. That's what we want to get right. I feel we were very, very unlucky with the injuries we got. With the number of injuries we've had, we have survived quite well."

"But I believe that hopefully in the second part of the season, we'll have more stability, especially defensively, to be more consistent."

Despite failing to clinch major silverware in 2014, the Frenchman still remains optimistic and is thankful for what his side had achieved in the past year.

"Overall it [has been] a positive year, because we made 79 points last season and won the FA Cup," he added.

"In the Champions League, we went out against Bayern unfortunately. But overall I think it was a positive year."

"This season, we'll see where we get. But I think we are some points short of what we could have achieved. It's time to catch back the points that we lost now until the end of the season."

"I feel it is nearly impossible that we will have the same bad luck on the injury front that we had in 2014. What is explainable in 2014 is that we had many players injured because they played in the World Cup."

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