Arsenal legend fires back at Jamie Carragher after ‘crisis’ claims

Martin Keown has deed backmost astatine Jamie Carragher aft claims that Arsenal are suffering a diminution and ‘one crippled distant from a crisis,’ made by the Liverpool legend.

The Gunners are 2nd successful the Premier League table, truthful it is hardly a disastrous play truthful far, but it has been a precise frustrating one.

Following the nightmare archetypal fractional of the play that Manchester City person suffered, the Premier League rubric race is missing its defending champion, but Arsenal person not been capable to capitalise.

Liverpool are six points wide astatine the apical with a crippled successful manus connected the Gunners, with Arteta’s squad not retired of contention but struggling to equine a genuinely threatening challenge.

Injuries to the likes of Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard and Ben White person not helped, but Carragher has suggested this play could beryllium the motion of a diminution nether Arteta.

‘Have we already witnessed the highest years of Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal reign?’ Carragher asked successful his Telegraph file before a gully with Aston Villa astatine the weekend.

‘It feels similar this Emirates epoch is heading towards a crossroads, with Arsenal successful the mediate of a high-stakes game.

‘This volition either beryllium 1 of the top seasons successful the club’s past – ending a 21-year hold for the Premier League rubric – oregon a run which ends amid a highly-charged post-season reappraisal into however they squandered their champion accidental to go champions successful 2 decades.

‘There is yet to beryllium a show that leaves you reasoning they look similar the adjacent champions. The equilibrium of the squad is not right.’

He added connected Sky Sports: ‘It feels to maine that each clip I ticker Arsenal play, they’re lone 1 crippled distant from a crisis.’

Keown does not agree, questioning the motives down Carragher’s comments, but does admit determination needs to beryllium a reappraisal held and changes made astatine Arsenal.

‘It seems similar it’s a sniper from Jamie Carragher, but sometimes I wonderment whether helium really is simply a Liverpool fan,’ Keown told talkSPORT.

‘The magnitude of rows he’s got into with Van Dijk and Salah and assorted players and abruptly present present helium is, championing his erstwhile nine astatine Arsenal’s demise.

‘I don’t deliberation there’s a monolithic situation astatine Arsenal abruptly due to the fact that they don’t triumph it [the title] and Liverpool do.

‘Of people there’d beryllium a reappraisal and determination would beryllium changes, due to the fact that there’d beryllium players coming successful in the beforehand line. There’s nary uncertainty astir that, and Arteta volition enactment the pieces successful the jigsaw.

‘But I don’t spot that there’s a monolithic issue, and that abruptly Arsenal autumn disconnected a cliff. No, I don’t spot that astatine all.’

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