Wenger: Wilshere might play again this season

Arsene Wenger is
confident Jack
Wilshere will feature
for Arsenal before the
season ends and
insists the midfielder
is "progressing well".
The 22-year-old is recovering from the
broken foot he suffered during England's
win over Denmark on March 5, and has
stepped up his return ahead of Arsenal’s
push for fourth place and FA Cup final
against Hull City.
"Jack Wilshere should start to jog this
week," he told reporters. "It is all going
well, but we have to monitor him now day
by day.
"The next three weeks will be very
important for him. Can he play this season?
Yes."
After reaching the FA Cup final on Saturday
following a tense penalty shootout victory
over holders Wigan, Arsenal will now focus
on league duties having been leapfrogged
by Everton into fourth place over the
weekend.
Up next for Arsene Wenger and his squad is
West Ham on Tuesday, and the manager
has revealed his injury crisis has deepened
following the win at Wembley.
"I can't give you team news because there
are so many uncertainties, muscular
problems or fatigue.
"[Tomas] Rosicky and [Laurent] Koscielny
we will test [on Monday]. I will decide later
whether to take a risk with him.
"The main uncertaintities are [Nacho]
Monreal, he has a large bruise, [Alex]
Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was not even
supposed to play on Saturday, [Aaron]
Ramsey, who had to come off with muscle
tiredness."
A run of seven consecutive victories has
seen Everton move into pole position for
the final qualification spot for the
Champions League, but Wenger believes
Arsenal winning their remaining games will
see them finish fourth.
He continued: "We want to finish strong
now, we have a battle with Everton and of
course it's now down to consistency in our
final games.
"We want to achieve it and that's simple.
We just want to not imagine the
consequences of not doing it, what you
want is just to focus on doing it.
"That's where I think we have the focus,
the quality of the spirit, we have the desire
and we are slowly getting our players back
so the squad is not depleted any more. It's
much more stronger than it was two or
three weeks ago.
"The target is of course to win every game.
Experience [of finishing in fourth every
season] counts, yes of course. But the
difference will be the quality that you
produce on the pitch and that is down to
desire, to be faithful to our game we want
to play, and get everybody back into the
squad."