Pundit Gary Neville has suggested that Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale clearly feels ‘under pressure’ after an error against Brentford.
Gary Neville has offered his reaction after seeing an error from Aaron Ramsdale in Arsenal’s trip to Brentford.
Arsenal made the short trip to West London this Saturday evening, travelling to take on Brentford.
This is never an easy game and Brentford always love to take points off the so-called ‘big six’.
Aaron Ramsdale almost gives Brentford a helping hand
The last thing you want to do against the Bees is give them an easy goal – but that’s so nearly what happened.
Goalkeeper Ramsdale is in the Arsenal side tonight with David Raya ineligible to play against his parent club.
Ramsdale was given the chance to impress Mikel Arteta and stake a claim for a return to the Arsenal team.
However, Ramsdale almost gifted Brentford a first-half goal with some slack work on the ball.
Ramsdale lost control of the ball right in front of his own goal, with Yoane Wissa laying the ball back to Bryan Mbeumo.
Declan Rice was in the right place at the right time to block Mbeumo’s shot, with Arsenal just about escaping disaster.
Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher react to Ramsdale error
Arsenal got away with it and snatched a win late on as Kai Havertz secured a 1-0 victory, but pundit Gary Neville wasn’t impressed with Ramsdale’s moment.
Neville took to social media to suggest that Ramsdale’s mistake came because he is under pressure at the Emirates Stadium.
Arteta took the decision in September to bench Ramsdale in favour of summer signing Raya.
Both Raya and Ramsdale have been a little shaky this season with Neville now believing their nervousness is down to feeling under pressure to perform.
We don’t often see goalkeepers chopped and changed and Neville seemingly thinks that the situation isn’t helping either of them.
We would argue that Arteta hasn’t really made this a competition though; he has made it pretty clear that Raya is now his first-choice stopper.
Ramsdale isn’t really under huge pressure because the likelihood is that he will be out of the team as soon as Raya is available for election again.
That’s a verdict Jamie Carragher agrees with, taking to social media to suggest that the idea Arteta has created pressure on Ramsdale is ‘nonsense’.
Carragher supports Arteta’s decision to seek improvement between the sticks and believes there is no battle at all.
Carragher highlighted that Arteta did similar in the past by replacing Bernd Leno with Ramsdale in 2021, completely disagreeing with Neville’s theory.
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