Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has admitted he gets scared anytime he faces former Chelsea striker, Didier Drogba.
Drogba, 38, now at Major League Soccer side, Montreal Impact, has always come out tops against the Frenchman – scoring 15 times in 16 games while at England.
The pair were reunited on Friday morning when the Gunners clashed with MLS-All Stars in a pre-season friendly.
It was however same old story as Wenger’s nemesis, Drogba, continued that remarkable streak by scoring the only goal for his side who fell 2-1 to the Premier League side.
Joel Campbell and Chuba Akpom were on target for Arsenal while Drogba made his third attempt count after being denied by old teammate, Petr Cech, and then Mathieu Debuchy.
And Wenger revealed he still hasn’t gotten over the trauma of facing his old foe and insists he will haunt him “until the end of his life”.
“At half-time, I was thinking: ‘He is still haunting us, even in the United States’.
“He has always harmed us and he continues. He is a winner and he will be like that until the end of his life.
“Drogba is a typical poacher of a goal. He can do that in the box. When I see him in the box and fighting with young defenders, I always think that now there is danger there because you know he will get the upper hand and score you a goal and that is what he did.”
With many insisting Drogba’s record against the Gunners is a mere fluke, the 38-year-old believes the stats speaks for itself.
“I don’t know, I don’t know, I want to say that I’m lucky but when you score 16 goals against them I don’t think it’s luck no more.”
However, Drogba was left disappointed with the result – despite it being only a friendly fixture.
“I want to help my team to win games. And I always say that the goal that I score and then we lose, for me that doesn’t count.
“For me it’s for fun because I scored against [former Chelsea, now Arsenal goalkeeper] Petr [Cech], but the result matters more than my goal or my own performance. It’s a bit disappointing to have lost this game in the last minute.
“I hate losing. So for fun, I will have fun with Petr because I scored. But he already killed me and said ‘This time I give you the goal’.
“But apart from that, no, the result I’m not happy with.”
