The pundit feels Arsenal’s experienced players have gone missing (Picture: The Overlap)Gary Neville has criticised Arsenal’s leadership group over the side’s recent run of poor results and feels they have contributed directly to the collapse of their title bid. When Arsenal needed their quartet of senior, experienced players to step up and lead, Neville says they went missing and believes the lack of leadership on display has swung the title race. Neville has criticised Zinchenko, Partey, Xhaka and Odegaard (Picture: Getty)‘And then if you think of the huddle that Zinchenko did [against Southampton] and then Odegaard came over and said, “Break up”. ‘So those four players that are the leaders in that team have not been able – at the moment those younger players needed it – to really pull them together and keep them calm and composed. ‘In the most difficult moments in the last four games Arsenal have had, I’ve not seen anybody really composing the team.

Source: Metro April 29, 2023 16:29 UTC