Unai Emery’s style of play at Arsenal has been blasted as “stupid” by former Everton boss Sam Allardyce.
Arsenal’s season didn’t exactly start with a masterful display in Emery’s first match in charge of the north London club, with the Gunners losing 2-0 to reigning Premier League champions Manchester City on Sunday afternoon.
The Emirates club lacked any real bite or intent as they failed to showcase anything of true value in their first 90 minutes of the 2018/19 campaign.
Despite signing talented goalkeeper Bernd Leno from Bayer Leverkusen this summer, Emery opted to continue fielding Petr Cech who has struggled to adapt to the disciplined passing style that has been asked of him under Arsene Wenger before and now Emery.
Former Everton boss Allardyce has heavily criticised Emery for opting to continue with this style of football, which he deems an “obsession” among the Premier League’s biggest clubs.
“It is the manager’s fault,” said Allardyce on talkSPORT.
“Don’t ask somebody to do against Man City what you shouldn’t do. You shouldn’t play out like that against Manchester City.
“What do Manchester City do? They press, press, press so why do you try and play out when they press, press, press?
“Even the Arsenal crowd cheered when he [Cech] dropped one in the opposition’s half.
“We are getting obsessed with this stupid ‘let’s play out from the back, split the centre-halves either side of the 18-yard box and go and play from there’… it’s utter rubbish to play like that all of the time.
“When you’re the best at it [like City] then you can do it.”
Arsenal’s next match is against Chelsea – who beat Huddersfield 3-0 on the opening weekend – at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
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