Ronan Mullen

To go into Arsenal for a second, you know, so everybody's saying about Arsenal, to defend them a little bit, everybody is saying about Arteta, he's so conservative.

They're just so overly conservative.

Like when I saw the teams come up pre-game and he goes with Rice and Zubamendi...

And Odegaard.

And then I had him sack Jesus Trossard.

Look, I think I, like a lot of people, have a certain groffereze.

I'd like him in the team somewhere.

But I was still looking at a team.

It's not like he's gone with six henchmen there who can't play football.

And people are saying, he's so conservative and he's got to throw people on.

There's a lot of attacking-minded players there.

Now, maybe the way they're playing is far too conservative, but I do think some of the criticism of Arteta's team selections and substitutes, it's become a little bit clichéd and OTT.

It doesn't stand up to total scrutiny.

Like, if you've midfield three of Odegaard, who's very front-facing, Rice, to be fair, has license, Zubamendi, and then Sakhis, Jesus Trossard...

Like, that's not a guy who's shutting up shop.

That's not... You know, conservative, I think that's a bit OTT.

Yeah, it's interesting because they should have lots of redeeming features.

I mean, you should be looking at that right-hand side of Odegaard behind Saka and it should be terrorising defenders.

Yeah, like what's gone wrong with Odegaard?

Because, I mean, he's such talent and he's like captain.