With fellow right-backs Carl Jenkinson and Mathieu Debuchy nowhere near the Arsenal first-team at present, Bellerin is all-but guaranteed to start at Middlesbrough on Monday night.
Down to seventh in the table, Arsenal had lost five of their previous eight League matches, failed to win away since January and arrived on Teesside on the back of four straight away league defeats, each featuring the concession of three goals.
Although the Frenchman accepted the display was far from flawless, Wenger was thrilled with all the amount of dedication from his players, having found them crumble in a 3-0 loss at Crystal Palace last time outside.
In the second half when it opened up we missed the final ball when we could've added one or two more.
"There are still some chances where maybe we could have played better with some long balls, but the focus and commitment was there".
"It was a testing point for us, psychologically [at 1-1] it was a minute after I felt that "now we'll see where we go". This win nudged them up to sixth, although Champions League qualification still looks like a tall order.
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Arsene Wenger has made a huge tactical change after switching to three at the back with Rob Holding coming in to join Gabriel and Laurent Koscielny in defence while Petr Cech returns in goal. Hopefully that will give us a bit more confidence. It gave the opponents more of the ball. Boro boss Steve Agnew will justifiably take plenty of positives from his side's display but the fact is though they deserved more, they remain adrift in the relegation zone and only a remarkable upturn in fortunes is likely to save them now.
"There has been speculation over both players but that does not enter into things when match-day comes because it is all about the game then and they will always give their all".
"I believed we might get the next goal after Negredo scored".
Mesut Ozil fired a second-half victor which kept Arsenal's hopes of a top-four finish just about alive and sent hosts Middlesbrough hurtling closer to the drop. We put them under tremendous pressure.
"The end of the season will come very quickly and it is up to us to finish strongly".
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