Pressure is all on Arteta

GUNNERS’ TACTICS ARE SO EFFECTIVE...BUT BLUES CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

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E know what Arsenal are all about, we know what Mikel Arteta is all about as he's an Evertonian and a former teammate of mine.

He's getting a lot of scrutiny over how he's going about winning football games through set-pieces and that could play into our hands a little bit because we've got big boys and can handle ourselves.

Can Jordan Pickford take a leaf out of Manchester United goalkeeper Senne Lammens’ book at Hill Dickinson Stadium and start demanding more in the six-yard box? It’s like a Royal Rumble at Arsenal these days.

They're accused of deploying the so-called ‘dark arts’ and a lot of people say that they're not enjoying that side of the game, but I love it. You do everything you can to try and get an edge over the opposition.

It’s great to see nice football, but the tweaks that Arsenal have brought in with the set-pieces and long throw-ins are all about delivery and having the quality to put them in. You then need the hunger to get on the end of it and they're showing that.

Maybe it’s not so easy on the eye, but it’s been effective. I've been in teams where you've had to do that and I've probably been picked ahead of people because I had a good delivery with a long throw.

You come across players and you think: “He'll be a good manager when he’s older,” and Mikel was very intelligent with what he could bring to the game. He knew what he could bring to the team.