"Do you want me to tell you the players we lost here? Abou Diaby, deliberate foul from behind. Tomas Rosicky, deliberate foul. Eduardo, deliberate foul. Now we lose Walcott, deliberate foul.
"And we have lost Bacary Sagna, deliberate foul on him. There is only one intention when he was tackled and that is the ankle and you want me, on top of that, to sit here and say 'yes, sorry we are not brave'.
"We were not protected on Saturday but having said that I congratulate Stoke City.
"They had a great performance but if the result of that is that my players are cowards . . . I don't accept that.
"Let's let the referee do his job. You can question at times the decisions of the referees but we respect them here. But they have to make the decisions on the pitch and see if the intention of the player is to play the ball.
"We accept the physical side and we relish it but I personally as a manager and a coach can never accept it when somebody plays without any intention to play the ball and comes out as a brave guy."
Wenger, who was forced to apologise after making similar claims following Birmingham City defender Martin Taylor's leg-breaking tackle on Eduardo in January, suggested that Walcott and Gallas could be fit to face champions Manchester United on Saturday.
But while the Arsenal boss blamed Stoke's malicious tackling for Saturday's embarrassing reverse, left-back Gael Clichy accepted that the players themselves are not entirely blameless.
The France international admitted: "[Against Stoke] I think we lacked a bit of everything. Up front we couldn't keep the ball, in the middle of the park we didn't run enough and at the back we conceded goals again.
"So all the team was to blame again and I think we have to really work harder and to give the confidence back to the boss because every day he is giving us a lot of credit.
"I think now it is time to realise that we have got the quality but we need to work harder because football is not only about playing nice football and scoring goals."
The Gunners have fitness fears over Walcott, Sagna, Gallas and Adebayor ahead of tomorrow night's game, while Fenerbahce could be without influential playmaker Alex, who has a thigh strain.
