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Ian Wright has questioned why Mikel Arteta maintains faith in the same Arsenal players despite the club’s difficulties this season.
The Gunners spend Christmas Day 15th in the Premier League table, and face a tough showdown in London on Boxing Day against Chelsea.
Arteta is enduring the worst form of any coach in the club’s illustrious history, but Wright says the Spaniard is not making life easier for himself ahead of a crucial period of matches.
After Chelsea, the Gunners face crunchy games in Brighton and West Brom that could see them drift out of the danger zone or get even more involved in it.
Wright wants Arteta to change his approach for the next few games, starting with eliminating some big names.
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“I have to say, from my point of view, with the coach and the players that he’s picking now, I think people like Emile Smith Rowe and Joe Willock and those guys, I would like to see them have a chance,” he said. at Optus Sport’s The Kelly and Wrighty Show.
“That’s simply because you’re looking at the Willians, it’s not happening and he’s not playing well. Why do you play people like Kolasinac? Why do you play someone like Mustafi?”
“I prefer to see [William] Saliba, who is playing in the U-23, I prefer to see Smith Rowe and I prefer to see something different.
“I would say to the people above: give the money to Mesut Ozil if they are not going to play it and move him. The same with Kolasinac and the same with the players who are in and around the club and are not going to contribute.
“That’s what they need, players who are contributing. Arsenal have to realize that they are in a situation that can get worse and if they lose those games against Brighton and West Brom … those games are games that they must win.”
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