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Kieran Gibbs

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
318 total appearances

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ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

No.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

He just made a mess of it.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

Here's my thing.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

Was it the wind that made his arms come up when he made the mistake?

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

The thing is with Van Dijk is he may be better next year than this year but he'll never be back

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

to the player he was, neither will Mo Salah.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

And it's for one reason, age.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

And when you start getting older and a little slower, as you do, and it's only natural,

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

The brain can still work and try and put you in a position, but generally everything slows down.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

And when you start making those mistakes, what you see is, what we've seen from Van Dyke this year, I think, it's just my opinion, is that you start looking to your portion blame.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

Because you know that you're not able to do the things that you once were.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

You're not in that control that Kieran talked about.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

You don't...

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

have that level of authority that you had, that sort of positioning through your physicality.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

And so when you find yourself in bad positions and making bad mistakes and making poor decisions that maybe you didn't 24 months before or 18 months before, players will, sometimes it's a natural thing to try and look to your post and blame elsewhere.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

And I don't think it's hard to, I think it's hard to argue.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

no matter who you are, that Van Dijk hasn't done that this year to a lot of his teammates.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

We've seen him do it to Canatti, who's made a lot of mistakes.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

We've seen him do it to Kierkegaard, who's struggled.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

We've seen him throw his hands up a lot.