Stevie Nicholl

Arsenal embarrassing, Frank, do you agree?

But you don't... The two things can go hand in hand.

And I mean this.

They defended like a team that... They approached the game for long periods like a team that didn't even think they could win the game.

I mean, I thought, honestly, whatever the team selection you want to talk about... That's not the first time we've heard those accusations thrown at Arsenal.

Have they got into that mindset now where they can't get out of it almost?

We saw them away against Bayer Leverkusen.

We've seen games in the Premier League where it's just scraping by.

They've lost that...

that dynamic energy where you used to watch them and the opposing teams couldn't even get out their half.

They were pressing hard.

Because they knew they had a good back four, a really good back four, so they could squeeze the game.

And they really throttled the life out of opponents.

And then they would win the ball back high up and they'd start again.

It's predictable.

It's part of the boss football.

It's predictable.

And listen, it's probably going to be good enough to win the Premier League, probably.

But it's gone from this winning it high up, pressing teams, putting so much pressure on the opposition that they won it in great areas and all of a sudden they're on the front foot, to getting 11 men behind the ball.

When you get 11 men behind the ball for long periods, which they did in the second half, at the start of the second half, long periods,