Ian Wright urged the squad to avoid sitting too deep and adopt a positive approach.
Arsenal legend Ian Wright claims the Arsenal squad sits too deep and concedes too much possession to their opponents and urged the team to use the likes Odegaard, Saka, Smith Rowe to vandalise Manchester City’s defence this weekend.
‘[David] Luiz and Gabriel should start at the back because we need to get the ball through that midfield to them three [Odegaard, Saka and Smith Rowe],’ Wright told Ringer FC’s ‘Wrighty’s House’ podcast.
‘It doesn’t make sense to me that we’re going to have them three and then play in a system that we’re not going to get them on the ball to get the ball to Aubameyang.
‘We’ve seen Auba can cause them problems even though City at the moment are brilliant defensively.
‘If we’re not going to try get the ball through Ceballos and [Granit] Xhaka, or whoever it’s going to be, into Odegaard, Saka and Emile Smith Rowe to then start working their magic in that area, I can’t understand what else he’s [Arteta’s] going to do apart from wait for them to come and beat us up and we’re not good at that.
‘We should go there and take what we get in respects of positivity for those players; Saka, Odegaard, Emile Smith Rowe playing against them [City] and impressing upon them their game.
‘Because what happens is, you come out of a game like that, whoever you’re playing next week it’s not going to be City, all of a sudden you feel, ‘I know the level I need to be’.
‘City is the place where you find your level and say, ‘that’s where I’m playing every week’.
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