Arsenal legend Thierry Henry believes Declan Rice should have prevented Bayern Munich's opener as they drew 2-2 with the Gunners in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final clash.
Bukayo Saka put Arsenal ahead after just 12 minutes before Serge Gnabry equalised after capitalising on errors from Gabriel and David Raya. However, Henry felt Rice could still have snuffed out the danger had he not attempted to intercept Leroy Sane's pass to Leon Goretzka.
After Sane intercepted a poor ball from Gabriel, Rice stepped up and the winger found Goretzka with an excellent pass that bypassed the England international. Goretzka then set up Gnabry, who slotted the ball past Raya.
Henry highlighted Rice's mistake on CBS Sports, explaining: "The goal of Gnabry and what Declan Rice should have done at that particular moment, because you're the police officer and a mistake happened, you have to rectify it.
"More often than not he does it, but he didn't do it tonight. We talk about the goalkeeper coming, we talk about the back pass, but look at the distance between the two centre-backs, and I know at that particular moment it doesn't look like you're going to be in trouble.
"At that moment you cannot make the three steps he's going to make. Leroy Sane wasn't born yesterday, you make those three steps, Goretzka sees it and runs in behind because look at the gap between Gabriel and Saliba, and you have a man [Gnabry] running.
"If he [Rice] stays and sees the guys all in front of him, nothing happens. But as you know, when you lose the ball you tend to want to go [to close down] because he thought it was going to be a short pass. But he's [Sane] clever, he's [Goretzka] clever, and on that one you are not."
When asked if Saliba could have anticipated the pass, Henry added: "You're dead. You can't. He's aware of Gnabry coming. It's a hell of a pass. It's Leroy Sane on the ball, it's not a guy at the bottom of the Premier League on the ball.
"You go there, the guy on the ball saw it, that's on you, you shouldn't lose that ball. I'm just saying Declan Rice at that particular moment, just don't go, [stay in a] back three and you see Gnabry, Sane and Goretzka coming."