Ian Wright has urged Unai Emery to play his best players against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
The Gunners fans were taken aback by Emery’s team selection against Liverpool last weekend. The Spaniard’s choice to bench Alexandre Lacazette did not sit well with the supporters as Arsenal fell to a 3-1 defeat.
Now, he is being advised to play all four of Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Nicolas Pepe and Lucas Torreira in the starting lineup against Spurs.
Wright said on his YouTube channel “A lot of people have talked about what I said about the diamond, and how I thought it gave Liverpool the impetus, and that’s just my opinion.
“I thought it surrendered possession to a team that work very well in those areas of the field. Whatever we say, our two chances that were made, apart from the goal [Lucas] Torreira scored, were when we had [Alexandre] Lacazette, [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang, [Nicolas] Pepe and Torreira on the pitch. We made a goal, it might have been a consolation but…
“You just want your best players on the pitch. And I just feel that, yes their goals were two mistakes, Henderson and the goalkeeper, but I just thought that, with the way we started the season, we could have been a little more ‘let’s big up our chests’, ‘let’s go up there and show what we’re capable of’.
“Now people are saying, ‘yeah but we lost because Wenger done that’ but I think this team is better than the one Wenger ended up with, and I think we’ve got better offensive players.
“I just wanted to see that. Maybe Unai is doing it for the future, in respect of the system, and maybe it might work better against teams who are not as good as Liverpool in those areas. It was a game that I thought would be tough for us, but I wanted to show them what we’ve got.
“We’d gone into two games, won two games, we had good momentum, and it kind of seemed to dampen it down a little bit. But nothing better than the derby to bounce back. I genuinely believe we are going to win.”
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