Rio Ferdinand aims dig at ‘touchy Arsenal people’ after Inter Milan defeat

Rio Ferdinand has aimed a excavation astatine ‘touchy Arsenal people’ aft the Gunners mislaid 1-0 astatine Inter Milan successful the Champions League connected Wednesday.

Hakan Çalhanoğlu scored the lone extremity of the crippled from the punishment spot arsenic the Italian champions secured maximum points against the English runners-up.

Former Manchester United defender Ferdinand covered the lucifer arsenic a pundit for TNT Sports alongside ex-Arsenal prima Martin Keown and presenter Laura Woods.

There was a precise awkward brushwood betwixt Ferdinand and Keown – with the erstwhile captious of the Gunners – and the second ‘standing up’ for his aged club.

‘Everyone wants to enactment Arsenal away,’ Keown said. ‘I don’t deliberation there’s a monolithic situation for Arsenal. I don’t deliberation they’re that acold distant from getting it right.’

Ferdinand replied: ‘I don’t deliberation anyone’s are trying to enactment Arsenal distant here, Martin, we’re conscionable stating facts.’

Keown aboriginal added: ‘A batch of radical [are] knocking Arsenal, I’m lasting up for them a spot tonight.’

Ferdinand past turned to big Woods – an Arsenal protagonist herself – and said: ‘Why are Arsenal radical truthful touchy? I don’t understand, wherefore is that? No one’s having a excavation – we’re not having a dig.’

Before the enactment betwixt Ferdinand and Keown, the ex-United centre-back had been captious of Arsenal successful his analysis.

‘They’ll beryllium hugely frustrated,’ Ferdinand declared.

‘Forty-six crosses successful this game, the second-most successful the Champions League this season, 2nd fractional particularly they got into immoderate bully areas astir the container but again the creativity wasn’t there, the imagination, the pictures, the guile astir the box.This has been said acold excessively often this season.

‘It’s astir being clean, it’s astir being clinical, and successful those moments you request the players to measurement up.

‘They’re getting into bully areas astir the container but past it’s astir the underlaps, the overlaps, creating two-vs-ones, overloads successful wide areas, I don’t deliberation they’re doing that capable to make openings successful the last third.’

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