Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger: Why I wrestled with this decision before the Bournemouth game Five things we learned about Arsenal against Bournemouth

The right-back played the full 90 minutes of last night’s thrilling 3-3 draw at the Vitality Stadium.

He didn’t have his best game in an Arsenal shirt, but the Gunners fought back from three goals down to secure an unlikely point.

And Wenger admits he nearly didn’t start the Spaniard after he picked up a knock in the 2-0 win over Crystal Palace on New Year’s Day.

Five things we learned about Arsenal against Bournemouth

Tue, January 3, 2017

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Hector Bellerin played the full 90 minutes of Arsenal's game against Bournemouth

Arsene Wenger's men grabbed an unlikely point

We had three or four players who we had to wait for the warm up to see if they could play

Arsene Wenger

“He had a knock, he was uncertain to play,” Wenger said. 

“That’s the problem when you have only 48 hours, you have to play some players who come out of a game like Crystal Palace [with knocks]. 

“We had three or four players who we had to wait for the warm up to see if they could play.”

And when discussing who the other players he could have used instead, he added: “We had Koscielny, we had Gabriel that I didn’t start in the end because I was not in a position, and then I did not start Oxlade-Chamberlain because I did not take a gamble with him because I don’t know who we have to take off.

Arsene Wenger considered leaving Hector Bellerin out of his starting line-up against Bournemouth

“You cannot take the fresh player out but then you cannot, the players who have played 48 hours before, you cannot take them out. 

“It complicates a lot, the job. But we have to shut up and cope with it.”

Arsenal remain fourth in the Premier League table.