Shearer Says “Arsenal players lack fight”

Coral ambassador Alan Shearer looks at what’s going on at Arsenal, who could be their next manager and how Ranieri deserves time…

Watching the first half of Bayern v Arsenal game you would never have seen that scoreline coming. Arsenal had done well to get back into the game after being completely dominated in the first 20 mins but I was amazed at their capitulation in the second half after Koscielny went off injured. There was no leadership or organisation on display. Not one player was trying to motivate or galvanise the side. The only question that remained was how many Bayern were going to score. They went through Arsenal like a knife through butter. It was so easy.

I listened to Michael Ballack after the game and he said he felt Bayern did not even play that well. In the end Arsenal were lucky it was only five. The players should take a lot of responsibility and hold their hands up rather than listening to their manager take all the flak.

There were reports of a row in the dressing room after the game, and if that was the case, it is about seven or eight years too late! I’d be surprised if there was though, because it does not seem this group of players want to have a row and I think that is part of the problem. None of them seem to have the fight or the desire within, to stand up and take responsibility. When I was playing, there was always someone in the team who would rattle your cage and you would get it in the neck if things were not going your way.

Arsenal lack leadership

When you look at this Arsenal team now compared to the one I played against, it’s chalk and cheese. I remember lining up against them in the Cup Final at Wembley, the likes of Adams, Vieira, Seaman, Dixon, Keown, the list goes on. All of those guys were leaders and if they wanted to be or needed to be, they could be horrible, properly nasty! In this current Arsenal team, they all seem like nice guys. Too nice. And that is why they fall away in the Premier League and fall out of the Champions League at this stage of the competition every year.

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Shearer Says “Arsenal players lack fight”

Coral ambassador Alan Shearer looks at what’s going on at Arsenal, who could be their next manager and how Ranieri deserves time…

Arsenal lack leadership

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