Roy Keane has taken a jab at Arsenal for their defensive approach in the second half of their match against Manchester City.
After going a goal up and being reduced to ten men, Arsenal was determined to protect their lead at all costs and nearly succeeded.
They forced Manchester City to use every tactic in the book to try to win, and the Citizens will likely admit they haven’t faced a tougher challenge in a long time.
It was a game that Arsenal could have lost by a wide margin had they opted for a more adventurous approach in search of additional goals. However, Keane suggested that their defensive strategy was reminiscent of something Tony Pulis or Sam Allardyce might have employed.
He said, as quoted by Mirror Football:
“If Tony Pulis, Sam Allardyce, Steve Bruce or Neil Warnock set up a team like that [Arsenal at Manchester City ] for the second half, they are ‘dinosaurs’. When Arsenal do it, it’s called ‘brilliant’, it’s ‘concentration levels’.
“When they won the ball back, which they did every now and again, try and look after it and try and get up the pitch. There was an incident when [Ben] White just kicked it out of play, [Declan] Rice a couple of times, just kicked it up the pitch.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
The conditions we found ourselves in that game forced us to employ that difficult tactic, and any other top club would have done the same thing.
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Who gives a damn about what roy keane says.I see arsenal fans talking worse than him for MY club
Feeding the Troll is counterproductive. Ignore the dimwit.
Can’t say fairer than that
That from a man who could not run a Championship team.
Absolute baldadash by Keane
Is there any fan base for Manchester United old crocks like Roy Keane and Gary Neville. They are exposing their hatred and jealous to Arsenal that is like they don’t even remember which club they used to play for. Can someone help them and show them where they should go and make contribution if the have any,PLEASE 🧏🏻
They are so pained and expected Arsenal not to be street smart and just lay down for Man City.
I bet if the team lost they would be the same people saying how naive we are to play an open game against City.
Absolutely .
In my country , its called bad belle
You are away from home against probably the best team in the world and 2-1, and yet he criticizes for trying to close the game out and Win, what an idiot.