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- he was essential to Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Neville’s beloved Manchester United
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The person answerable for Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Manchester United is ‘essentially the most annoying bloke in soccer,’ Gary Neville has claimed.
Targets from Jurrien Timber and William Saliba supplied a harsh actuality test for Ruben Amorim on the Emirates as he suffered his first loss managing United on Wednesday evening.
And Neville was fast to revive his commentary on a person he as soon as branded a ‘little nuisance’ within the wake of his former aspect being outdone.
That man is none apart from Arsenal set-piece coach Nicolas Jover, who should have been delighted that each of their targets got here from deal-ball routines.
Arsenal have now scored 22 targets from corners for the reason that begin of final season, greater than every other aspect.
‘The set-piece coach at Arsenal, he’s received to be essentially the most annoying bloke in soccer,’ Neville mentioned on The Overlap’s watchalong of the sport.
Arsenal’s set-piece coach Nicolas Jover has been branded ‘essentially the most annoying bloke in soccer’ by Gary Neville
Arsenal scored two set items to place Neville’s outdated aspect Manchester United to the sword 2-0
Neville has beforehand known as Jover a ‘little nuisance’ attributable to his present at organising nook routines
‘He’s received to be, hasn’t he? He’s received to be although, hasn’t he?’
Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher mentioned: ‘I’ll let you know what, give him what he desires.
‘For those who had been that set-piece coach for Arsenal, you would write your personal contract, couldn’t you? You couldn’t eliminate him.
‘You understand, if he mentioned, “I need 25 grand per week,” you’d have to offer it to him, wouldn’t you?’
Jover is changing into a much-loved determine on the Emirates as his set-piece wizardry has helped Arsenal achieve an edge on their rivals – together with within the 3-2 derby win over Tottenham in April.
He made the headlines in October final yr when Manchester Metropolis’s Kyle Walker appeared to snub a handshake from Jover after Arsenal beat them 1-0 on the Emirates.
There’s historical past there as a result of Jover labored in the identical position for Pep Guardiola at Metropolis between 2019 and 2021, earlier than linking up once more with Arteta at Arsenal.
And Neville has beforehand voiced his exasperation at simply how good Jover is. On the Spurs-Arsenal match in April, he mentioned: ‘It has been the identical Arsenal set-up all yr and it has been good all yr.
Ruben Amorim was handed a actuality test as he suffered his first defeat as United supervisor
Jurrien Timber and William Saliba had been on the scoresheet as Arsenal reduce the hole to Liverpool to seven factors
‘He is a bit of nuisance that set-piece coach, however he is rattling good!’
Berlin-born Jover started his profession as a video analyst at French membership Montpellier and briefly served in an identical position for the Croatia nationwide workforce.
He got here to England in July 2016 to work as an assistant coach to Dean Smith at Brentford and continued underneath Thomas Frank when the Bees had been within the Championship.
His abilities had been recognised by Guardiola and in 2019, Jover joined Metropolis’s teaching workers to work on set-pieces.
Whereas on the Etihad, Jover labored in his first few months with Mikel Arteta, Guardiola’s No 2, earlier than he left to take the Arsenal job.
Arteta persuaded Jover to take an identical position at Arsenal in July 2021 after earlier set-piece coach Andreas Georgson returned to Malmo as sporting director.
