Kay Murray

Going forward, Arsenal recently in the Premier League have struggled to create clear chances, to have any sort of combination, and they've been picking points up with surprise, surprise, set pieces, maybe an individual piece of brilliance.

But as a unit, they've had nothing going forward.

Now, you can look at that and say, well, sometimes that happens.

You've got too many forward players who are out of form.

But in terms of the whole team...

If you want to win the Premier League or any title, you have to go and win it.

Nobody's going to hand it to you.

It's not just going to drop in your lap.

And to me, that's down to the manager, how he puts you on the field.

And this Arsenal team stepping on the field should have been thinking about squeezing life out of Bournemouth, getting in their face, making it tough for them.

Instead of that, they were standing off and letting Bournemouth pass the ball around.

You do that with this Bournemouth side and they're going to create chances.

And guess what?

You end up losing two goals.

I understand that some players are not informed, and you could say that about pretty much every forward player that Arsenal has, whether it's Jesus coming on, Havertz at 10, why is Eze not playing, Martinelli got nothing, Trossard gave nothing, Medveke didn't do anything.

I mean, the young kid down, you're asking a 16-year-old to get you out the mire.

He can't do it all the time.

I think...

the biggest problem they have is Arteta not putting them on the field in the right frame of mind.

I don't think Zubi Mendy's playing well either, Stephen.