Arsenal legend Ian Wright is of the opinion that Unai Emery has scrapped off his tactics because he doesn’t have the right players to implement them. Arsenal’s top four hopes are hanging in the balance as they need a massive win against Burnley and need Tottenham to lose by a large margin to Everton.
However, the Gunners still have hopes of Champions League qualification as they have a chance of winning the Europa League. The Gunners are close to a place in the Europa League final as they already have a 3-1 advantage against Valencia.
Wright feels that Arsenal are currently in a stagnant position. The former striker said, “I think that it’s still a massive transitional period. I think that when they started with Unai Emery and he wanted to do this high-pressing game and the players he got, I genuinely feel it’s the same. I feel he hasn’t got the players to do what he wants to do, to kind of execute the game he wants, because it totally seems like it’s been abandoned.
I watched them against Leicester the other day and there’s no creativity in the midfield. He played a 4-4-2, it seemed like it was just a case of letting [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang and [Alexandre] Lacazette do something and it nearly happened one time against Leicester.
You would have thought that he was coming in, it was gonna be progressive. At the moment it feels like there’s a stagnation going on. There’s a lot of players that need to be moved on and when you watch how they played yesterday [in 1-1 draw at home to Brighton], you watch how they played in a run of games where Arsenal were expected to do a lot better and they took like one point out of the four games, I think it shows the mentality as well, which is something I thought the manager would have addressed.
But you don’t know what money he’s gonna be given in the summer, so you’re gonna have the same manager who’s been appointed as a head coach. Is he gonna be able to make these players or the players he’s gonna get better? That’s what it comes down to for me.”
Arsenal play the second leg of their Europa Leage semi-final tie against Valencia tomorrow night before playing Burnley on Sunday.
