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Gary Neville believes the Arsenal players look “bored” and Mikel Arteta must get them “fun” back on the field to recover from his worst start in 46 years.
The Gunners sit at a humble 15th spot in the Premier League table, just four points above relegation spots, having scored just 14 points in their first 14 games of the season.
Sky Sports expert Neville doesn’t think Arsenal are in relegation danger, but he believes the club may be in a perfect storm of things going wrong.
Speaking on Sky’s Gary Neville podcast, he said: ‘I think Mikel Arteta has to do one thing in the coming weeks – the results may not come, the performances may not come, but he has to make the Arsenal players appear to be enjoying themselves.
At the moment, it doesn’t seem like they’re having fun.
“On Saturday they seemed like a lot of players struggling and working hard with the way they had been asked to play, maybe they didn’t believe in the system, or maybe they don’t think the players next to them are good enough. Something is wrong.
“Although it seemed that I did not enjoy my football, because I was always very serious on the field, I loved playing for this Sir Alex Ferguson team. It was exciting, we were going to move on and we were committed.
“Arteta has to make those players accept this again, the idea of going to the field and enjoying, loving and getting excited about football. [Arsene] Wenger teams always had that.
‘This Arteta team seems more rigid, solid, but it’s a bit boring. He used to say at Old Trafford, you can win, you can lose, but you can’t get bored of coming to Old Trafford.
“I think Arsenal fans and most football fans are the same. They will not accept being bored. For me, the Arsenal players seem bored and the football they are producing looks like a real fight. ”
Arsenal’s 2-1 loss to Everton on Saturday night was the eighth of the league season and things aren’t going to get any easier.
They host Manchester City in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday night before a Premier League home match against London rivals Chelsea on Boxing Day.
Neville compares the situation at Emirates Stadium since Wenger left the club in 2018 for Manchester United in the years since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013 when standards were lowered.
He said, ‘You end up saying: is he the coach? The recruitment? But when you get results like they are getting, you end up blaming yourself for everything, because it’s probably all true.
“There is an element that everything goes wrong at the same time.”
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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