Ian Wright expressed disappointment with Gabriel Magalhaes’ defending during Fulham’s winning goal against Arsenal yesterday. The defeat to Fulham marks back-to-back losses for Mikel Arteta’s side, impacting their aspirations to win the Premier League.
Arsenal aimed to bounce back from their previous defeat to West Ham and return to winning ways against Fulham. However, they fell short of expectations, and Wright believes that the Gunners could have prevented the winning goal if Gabriel had fulfilled his defensive responsibilities more effectively. Wright’s critique reflects the frustration among fans and analysts as Arsenal strives to compete at the highest level in the Premier League.
He said, as quoted by Mirror Football:
“Gabriel Magalhaes is such a big guy, Bobby De Cordova-Reid is a smaller guy, I thought he should have been more dominant in the situation.
“It goes over his head but that one when he does the leg, he’s got to be moving to attack the ball instead of waiting. You’re a defender. You’ve got to be on the move and be ready to react. Those margins, getting that wrong, it has cost them.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
There is really no need picking on one player now because if we had been on our best form, we would not have lost that fixture.
Gabriel was poor in that instance, but most of our guys were poor in their role as well.
We need to focus on improving our performance as a team and work hard to break down tough teams again.
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The whole team was poor on the day. Nothing more to say!
Very true. But I did notice how Gabriel failed in most of his passes, which is very unusual. Fact is though, this side have been dipping in form for weeks. Let’s hope the game next week against Liverpool see a much different side turn up.
The team lack Plans , You can’t always rely on Saka and Martinelli, Get creative Midfielders or go and hunt from our Youth squad, Arteta is too stubborn
Great, if the whole players of the team was poor, then they deserve 100 per cent score for playing to the Manager’s instruction. The manager never complained or reacted quickly to correct the flaws. It’s MA’s tactics.
Arteta is missing it all.we need an outright striker and for crying out loud why are all arsenal players afraid of shooting outside the box.WE LACK DEPTH .please go out there and get 1 straight striker a midfielder and a natural right back