Arsene Wenger is determined that Arsenal do not repeat the mistakes they made against Hull City when they play Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on Saturday.

The Arsenal manager admitted he had felt physically sick after the shock result at Emirates Stadium, which was somewhat put right with an impressive 4-0 victory over Porto in the Champions League on Tuesday. "We responded well," the Frenchman said. "First of all it was important to show that Saturday was an accident. We gave the first half of the response on Tuesday night and we want to give the other half on Saturday at Sunderland.

"When you go to Sunderland, you want your team to be completely at its best, and focused. I believe what happened last week will help us to do that. The pain was big, the response was good. I believe we have a healthy attitude in the squad and that has been shown against Porto. We want to show we have learned from the defeat against Hull."

Wenger knows there can be little margin for error again given their defeat at Fulham in their opening away game of the domestic campaign. "I do not think, looking at the league table, the Hull result has too much of an impact. But it is damaging because you do not want to lose at home against anybody," he said.