Neville is right, Arsenal have “become quite turgid at times to watch”, but that is because an attack that scored 114 goals in 2024 (Arsenal’s best scoring rate for more than 60 years) has been decimated by injury.
“Arsenal have become quite rigid, they’ve become quite turgid at times to watch,” Neville said over the weekend.
Adding more variety to Arsenal’s attack is key and clearly a right-side bias has developed over the years due to the form of Odegaard and Saka.
Arsenal have made set-pieces a valuable weapon, but there are far greater factors that have damaged their attack this season.
Injuries have exposed that and, if anything is to be learned from this season, it is that Arsenal need more firepower, not that they should spend less time on set-pieces.
