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Gary Neville has blamed Arsenal’s doomed title challenge on an “obsession with set pieces.”
As the Gunners slipped 11 point off the pace, with leaders Liverpool almost disappearing over the horizon, the Premier League brand took a monster hit over the weekend.
I know they didn't want to do business in the January transfer window - they thought there wasn't quite the value in the market or they couldn't get the player that would come in and impact them.
“But they have left themselves short, there's no doubt about that.
"The last two seasons they've gone very close and I've had a lot of admiration, but this season is more of a problem because when City weren't going to be there, the team that had to be there were Arsenal in my mind.
“It's not going to be them, it doesn't look like, and that's the big shock and surprise, and I think that'll be the one that will hit hardest in the boardroom, and (with) Mikel Arteta, and the dressing room and the players.
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“Questions will start to be asked because, a little bit like that Leicester season when a couple of the teams didn't win it, you start to ask questions of those teams, saying, ‘Hang on a minute, Leicester went and won it.’ It's that type of season where it's up for grabs.”
Neville’s scathing criticism is, to an extent, dated
Arsenal were top scorers from set pieces in the Premier League with 20 goals last season, but this term they are fourth in the dead-ball charts with 10.
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