Another Gary Neville master class: Arsenal’s attacking options past & present

Once again, on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football, Gary Neville produced some awesome analysis as he looked at why Arsenal’s attack is no longer is fearsome as it used to be in the early days of Arsene Wenger’s reign.

Ironically, many of Arsenal’s forward players appeared to take on board Neville’s advice just minutes later as they demolished Reading 5-2.

In particular, Neville calls for midfielders to run beyond the forwards and get into good positions which is exactly what Santi Cazorla did for his hat-trick at the Madejski.

Using the likes of Patrick Vieira, Cesc Fabregas and Tomas Rosicky, G Nev shows why the current Arsenal side are nowhere near as effective up front as some of their former great sides.

Neville is fascinating on the lack of runs on the “inside left and inside right” compared to the what the likes of Robert Pires, Ray Parlour, Marc Overmars etc. used to bring to the Gunners all those years ago.

Footage of Neville analysing the Arsenal forward line and attacking options is on the video below.

The former Manchester United full back also had high praise for Stoke which will likely surprise many (turn the sound up on this one…)

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