Graeme Souness
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Maybe you could add because of his age and the fella next to him, Mustafi, has never been good enough since the day he walked through the door.
And that's the reasons why all the goals come down there.
To see Arsenal defend like that, really, there's a big job there for Unai Emery to do.
I said in commentary that...
We debated when he first came in how he wants to play, how he wants to go about it.
He's done a few different things, I think, since he's come to Arsenal, different formations at times.
We saw them at Chelsea early on where they tried to push up right to the halfway line.
They got done, runs in behind it.
It was Morata that day.
Today they've gone really deep, the opposite.
But you never, ever feel secure with anything Arsenal does, any set-up the manager does.
He went three at the back for a time this season.
I think Cardiff in midweek actually had probably better chances than Arsenal do.
So everything he tries there defensively
just doesn't seem to work for them.
I mean, before the Awobi mistake, again, the goal, you see the cross come in, it's Aguero again, but before the Awobi mistake, it's actually someone making a run in behind and getting to that byline again, making the run between...
the full-back and the centre-back, so if you see that there again, see that run?
See, that's what happened time and time again, and I'll be honest with you, I was disappointed with Unai Emery, it didn't feel like there was some sort of plan, and stop now, the plan of the game is to defend deep, the reason Obi's took the extra touches, because he sees his two strikers ten yards away from him, now he still should clear it, Graham's right, but that's happened, you get the ball, you look up, there's no one there, you look for the pass.
it's gone but initially it comes from that run and you mentioned about the midfield players going back with De Bruyne and Silva from up there it just didn't look like there was some sort of plan of how they were going to deal with them and it ended up being that Guendouzi ended up in the back five made it really and I just think it's strange that he never went with the back five considering he had Kalasinic as a left winger and played like that and I was disappointed there because it looked as if
He didn't really have a plan to stop probably the two best players.