Jamie Carragher Provides Opinion About Henrikh Mkhitaryan And Mesut Ozil

Jamie Carragher believes that good times are on the horizon for Arsenal, but their key players must offer more defensively.

It's not been the greatest start for Unai Emery in terms of results, but there has been plenty to be pleased about in terms of performance - the chances they created against Chelsea should have seen them nab all three points.

And Henrikh Mkhitaryan spoke about his new manager's style of play to Sky Sports after the defeat to the Blues:

"We have to keep working because we have a new manager, a new philosophy and want to play in a different way than before under Wenger," said Mkhitaryan to Sky Sports.

"It's not too easy but we are trying to achieve that and do what the coach is asking from us. He wants to play football and dominate the game and that's what we're doing, we're not just kicking the ball up front.

Liverpool legend Carragher tweeted with this response.

While Gary Neville suggested that, despite Sam Allardyce criticising Emery and Arsenal, the new boss needs time.

"I think it's ignorant to suggest that he has to adapt. Unai Emery has been a coach for 10 years and has been successful

"He has his idea [and] the players have to adapt to him. He must find out, over this first season, which players can adapt to him and which can't. I expect in this first season that there will be some pain for Arsenal in this transition.

"He is only five or six weeks in. I saw Sam Allardyce saying 'you can't do this, you can't do that. Unai Emery isn't trying to avoid relegation, he is trying to build a team to win a title, with a style.
"The last thing Emery should do it adapt, otherwise the players will walk all over him."

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Jacque Talbot

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