Ian Wright has criticised two Arsenal players for their questionable defending in a 3-0 defeat against Brighton.
The Gunners were soundly beaten by Roberto De Zerbi's Europe-chasing Seagulls at the Emirates on Sunday afternoon.
The result effectively ends their Premier League title hopes, with a goal from Julio Enciso and two late strikes from Deniz Undav and Pervis Estupinan seeing Arsenal go four points behind leaders Manchester City, having played a game more.
Their defending for all three goals left a lot to be desired, and club icon Wright told Premier League Productions that two men in particular were at fault.
Former England striker Wright singled out centre half Jakub Kiwior, who bizarrely bent down suddenly, allowing Enciso to head home - with Kiwior feeling he was fouled.
He said: 'I was thinking, 'Oh my gosh there's something drastically wrong with him because he's stopped, he's gone down, so obviously he will not be able to play on'. I've never seen this before, with all due respect to him.
'Because if you're bad you go off, but if you know you're going to be able to play on…Yes he's stepped on his foot there, his boot's come off, I get that, but now you go, you mark and deal with it.
'Let's face it, he's able to play on, so that foul cannot be bad enough for him to go on his knees and the guy have a free header. That was a goal that should not have happened. To see him go down like that was really, really surprising, I thought he had a really bad injury.'
Polish 23-year-old Kiwior sprinted after the ball shortly afterwards, proving he was not badly injured.
Wright then had his say on Leandro Trossard, who - against his former side - gave the ball away before Undav's chip, which made it 2-0 in the 86th minute and killed the match as a contest.
'That is a difficult thing he's trying, to play the ball round the corner into his teammate with the outside of his left foot,' he added. 'Trossard has to read the situation, he's got enough space to turn to his right and play it to Kieran Tierney.
'That was somebody who's come off the bench and I don't know if he's up to speed with the game or whether he cares enough at that particular moment, because the way he flicked his left foot out at that was not right at that stage of the game.
'You can't give the ball away, you can't lose the ball. Especially in the manner he did it there, it's almost flippant. You're not getting away with that.'
AngelBluebest
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Y'all acting like you don't know mitoma, he can get past anyone with ease.... Plus mitoma did not have an assist or a goal in the match so i don't get why you pinning the Arsenal defeat on Ben White
i didnt say it was ben white's fault entirely, but the reporters in england seem to be trying to not critizice players from england and r just going for others, if they critizice trossard and kiwior, then white should also be critiziced
Roybceimot
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my thought exactly, mitoma went past white many times
Y'all acting like you don't know mitoma, he can get past anyone with ease.... Plus mitoma did not have an assist or a goal in the match so i don't get why you pinning the Arsenal defeat on Ben White
AngelBluebest
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of all the criticized no body is mentioning Ben White's name for giving away possession cheaply to Mitoma through out the game why? because he is English. if any body is to be blamed for Arsenals defeat yesterday it should be Ben White.
my thought exactly, mitoma went past white many times
dudaclrs
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of all the criticized no body is mentioning Ben White's name for giving away possession cheaply to Mitoma through out the game why? because he is English. if any body is to be blamed for Arsenals defeat yesterday it should be Ben White.
nihackoruy
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they are always the best all those season but at the end of the day no trophy, it's so painful
Tataiostz
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For me Arsenal young squad should be proud of themselves. Honestly they gave their best. Greater achievements await you guys. Gunners
they didn't look like they were fighting nearly their best over the last several games. They were capable of much better.
Tataiostz
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they absolutely made a total cockup of the race. It might be that the coach is unable to motivate them, but that is their own fault too, they knew their situation and their roles.
Richpope1
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you wan use small boys win almighty EPL 🙄
Nosknpuy
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Regardless of what happened I'm super proud of this Arsenal team if you had said they would be in the title race and the start of the season you would have probably said no way but they were it was just in the final 10 games where it seemed challenging but they have laid the foundation for greater expectation. Arteta is a great manager he shouldn't hold back in the transfer window we lacked squad depth in the final 10 games we need players with the winning mentality meaning favorites in the starting eleven should be on the basis of performance. Can't wait to see what addition Edu and Arteta will bring to the team.
Huocklmz
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no winning maternity no fighting spirits really let fan down
ndabawubafo
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For me Arsenal young squad should be proud of themselves. Honestly they gave their best. Greater achievements await you guys. Gunners