The Gunners coach has been slated for asking his defence to play out from the back but his game plan has already won over the players
To adapt or not adapt, that is the question.
At least it was the question on everyone’s lips after Monday Night Football’s weekend recap with Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville on Sky Sports, where the two pundits debated whether Arsenal head coach Unai Emery should stick to his own principles or abandon certain ideas deemed unsuited to the rigours of Premier League football.
Former Liverpool defender Carragher suggested that Emery needs to adapt his style to the more direct English game and ditch his insistence on asking his defenders and goalkeeper to play the ball out of the back, a tactic that Sam Allardyce described as "stupid" and "utter rubbish".