Gooners will love what Gary Neville said after Unai Emery criticism

After two defeats in his opening two games, Gunners boss Unai Emery is already coming under fire.

But the Spaniard may have been surprised to see Gary Neville back his style of play in this week’s first edition of Monday Night Football.

Both Jamie Carragher and Neville had their say on Arsenal’s tactics against Chelsea. A frenetic game saw the Blues take all three points as they edged out the north Londoners 3-2.

Emery has since come under scrutiny with from former England manager Sam Allardyce among those who have been very vocal in their criticism.

Speaking on talkSPORT, Allardyce said: “It is the manager’s fault.”

Arsenal are yet to get off the mark this season

“Don’t ask somebody to do against Man City what you shouldn’t do. You shouldn’t play out like that against Manchester City.

“What do Manchester City do? They press, press, press so why do you try and play out when they press, press, press?

“We are getting obsessed with this stupid ‘let’s play out from the back, split the centre halves either side of the 18-yard box and go and play from there’… it’s utter rubbish to play like that all of the time.”

However, Neville responded with a few words of his own.

“He’s only five to six weeks in,” said the former Manchester United defender.

Neville has torn into Sam Allardyce

“I saw Sam Allardyce’s comments last week on the radio after the first game.

“He talked about ‘you can’t do this, you can’t do that’. Unai Emery’s not trying to get eight points from five games to avoid relegation.

“He’s trying to build a team to win a title. He’s trying to build a team in the style to win a title. Not lump it long and get in behind them.”

Gooners, are you happy with Arsenal’s style of play? Let us know in the comments…