Two Arsenal players have come under fire from Alan Shearer for their part in West Ham’s opening goal at the Emirates last night.
The Gunners missed their chance to move up to the top of the table and overtake Liverpool because they could not overcome a tenacious West Ham team that came away with all three points.
Arsenal had thirty shots overall and the great majority of the possession, but they were unable to get through David Moyes’ defense.
With a game remaining, Manchester City is now only three points behind the Gunners, who now sit second in the table with 40 points as a result of the outcome.
After just 13 minutes, Mikel Arteta’s team trailed to a contentious Tomas Soucek.
“Look at Rice; he has no idea where Bowen is. In actuality, Gabriel need to mark Bowen since he is aware of his whereabouts.
He moves to protect the area rather than the man. Soucek tucks the ball away, but Bowen is the one who inflicts the harm and keeps it alive. From Arsenal’s perspective, the defense is truly subpar.
Against his old team, Rice himself didn’t have the best of nights. The 24-year-old gave up a penalty at the end and shared some of the blame for the first goal.
Arsenal has a respectable schedule of games ahead of them, so the Gunners will be hoping to get past this setback as quickly as possible.
In addition, it is necessary to release fringe players in order to clear roster space and adhere to FFP regulations.
Following West Ham’s victory over Arsenal, David Moyes candidly discussed the team’s objectives for the January transfer window.
While acknowledging he doesn’t have “a big lot of cash” to spend, Moyes remains adamant that he will be seeking to accomplish precisely that.
“Look, injuries will always have an impact on what we do in the window,” Moyes stated during a Prime Video Sport interview on Amazon Prime Video.
We don’t seem to have a lot of money on hand that we could use to sign a lot of players.
It’s never an easy window, to be honest. I’m sure we’ll try to add to it, but first we need to see how Kurt is doing and how the injuries are.
“It will be a great loss for us as Mo is also heading to the African Nations; we have a few boys away at the African (Cup of) Nations.
