levels of Arsenal’s defeat to Newcastle United
Gary Neville has slammed Arsenal’s set-piece educate for ‘screaming like loopy’ at Leandro Trossard at some stage in the 1-zero defeat to Newcastle United on Saturday.
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Arsenal driven tough for an equaliser withinside the final levels however had been allow down after a chain of terrible corners from Trossard had been without problems defended with the aid of using Newcastle.
However, Neville has hit out at Arsenal’s set-piece educate, Nicolas Jover, for ‘unnecessarily placing strain’ on Trossard together along with his commands from the touchline.
When requested approximately Arsenal’s terrible set-piece transport withinside the final levels of the recreation, Neville stated on The Gary Neville podcast: ‘It turned into using me loopy,
‘The set-piece educate down here, he turned into doing my head in as well.
Arsenal’s set-piece educate Nicolas Jover with Mikel Arteta
Arsenal’s set-piece educate Nicolas Jover with Mikel Arteta (Getty)
‘He turned into screaming on like loopy like he turned into the manager. I’m now no longer certain that helps. He’s screaming on at Trossard who turned into taking the set-pieces… take a seat down down, he is aware of what to do, you’ve long gone via it withinside the week, it’s up at the board withinside the dressing room earlier than the recreation, and you’ve instructed him three, 4 times.
‘To me it felt like he turned into placing extra strain on Trossard taking the corners, which, to be fair, Trossard didn’t cope with due to the fact his corners had been appalling.
‘They had been actual chances, in a recreation that’s so tight, set-pieces, nobody desires to inform Mikel Arteta or any of the coaches on this league, they’re the critical moments, Arsenal are right on corners, they’ve were given an awesome record. The transport has were given to be right, if the transport isn’t right all of it falls over.
Mikel Arteta
speaks after Arsenal’s defeat in opposition to Newcastle
‘I simply felt as aleven though he turned into being screamed at down this close to facet with the aid of using the set-piece educate and, to be fair, he turned into likely placing strain on him unnecessarily.
‘When you visit take a set-piece or a lifeless ball you’ve need to be comfortable, it’s now no longer clean taking a corner, I suggest human beings may say it’s the very best component withinside the world, genuinely, it’s now no longer clean to take a corner, if you’re right at them it seems sincerely clean, however genuinely as a proper-again I couldn’t have taken corners and I may want to pass a ball.
‘But to really get it into the proper regions all of the time with precision, that’s now no longer an clean component to do. So really ensuring the gamers are comfortable earlier than they take them is an vital component, and I don’t suppose that helps.’
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