- Arsenal conceded from a nook of their 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace
- Jamie Carragher took intention at Arsenal’s set-piece coach after the sport
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Jamie Carragher made a cheeky dig at Arsenal set piece coach Nicolas Jover after revealing the Gunners have proved fallible from useless ball conditions this season.
Jover has earned widespread reward all through the 2024-2025 marketing campaign for Arsenal’s outstanding success with set items.
Arsenal scored their sixteenth set-piece objective of the season within the Premier League on Wednesday evening, as Jakub Kiwior put the hosts forward with a third-minute header from a free-kick on the Emirates.
The Gunners, nevertheless, have been pegged again when Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze was left unmarked from a nook on the sting of the field, with the midfielder producing an outstanding volley to stage the scoring.
Arsenal have been finally held to some extent after a 2-2 draw with an outstanding late leveller from Jean-Philippe Mateta cancelling out Leandro Trossard’s objective simply earlier than half-time.
Put up-match, Carragher highlighted that Arsenal have conceded the second highest proportion of objectives from corners within the high flight this season, with solely Man United proving extra porous.
Jamie Carragher identified how Arsenal have struggled to defend corners this season
Carragher took intention at Arsenal’s set-piece coach Nicolas Jover (pictured) who has been extensively praised for making the Gunners such a menace from useless ball conditions
Eberechi Eze fired Crystal Palace stage from a nook within the first half, and Carragher believes Arsenal’s defending from set items has turn into a ‘massive drawback’
Carragher opted to have a cheeky dig at Arsenal’s set piece mastermind Jover, whose success was honoured with a mural by supporters earlier this season.
‘When it comes to proportion, solely Man United are worse than Arsenal set piece-wise this season. So once we make a giant deal concerning the set-piece coach… he is completely out of this world when it comes to going ahead, however they have a giant drawback defensively.
‘So ought to we be slicing his wages in half? Do they want a defensive set-piece coach?
‘It has been one of many tales of the season and rightly so. It is unbelievable. You’re feeling like they’re going to rating a objective from a set-piece in each recreation, or come very near scoring.
‘In fact he is had a huge effect however it’s humorous that they’re having large issues themselves.
Carragher shouldn’t be the primary Sky Sports activities pundit to have highlighted Jover this season, with Gary Neville having beforehand labelled him the ‘most annoying bloke in soccer’ on account of his animated presence on the touchline throughout set items.
His comment got here throughout The Overlap’s watchalong of Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Manchester United in December when each of the Gunners’ objectives got here from corners.
Nonetheless, Carragher defended Jover on the time, claiming he was incomes each penny of his wage along with his set-piece experience.
Gary Neville branded Jover the ‘most annoying bloke in soccer’ again in December
Neville’s feedback got here after Arsenal scored twice from corners of their win over Man United
Talking about Jover, Carragher instructed Neville: ‘I’ll let you know what, give him what he needs.
‘When you have been that set-piece coach for Arsenal, you possibly can write your individual contract, couldn’t you? You couldn’t eliminate him.
‘You realize, if he stated, “I need 25 grand per week,” you’d have to provide it to him, wouldn’t you?’
After throwing away the lead twice on Wednesday, Arsenal have now dropped 18 factors from successful positions this season.
They sit 12 factors behind leaders Liverpool, who want only a draw in opposition to Tottenham on Sunday to seal their twentieth league title.
