{"id":1104895,"date":"2019-09-05T10:53:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1104895"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:53:41","slug":"parlour-defends-xhaka-criticism-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/parlour-defends-xhaka-criticism-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Parlour defends Granit Xhaka following criticism from former Arsenal players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ray Parlour has defended Granit Xhaka following criticism of the Arsenal captain&#8217;s performance against Tottenham Hotspur in Sunday&#8217;s north London derby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xhaka gave away a needless penalty &#8211; which was scored by Harry Kane &#8211; and was generally ineffective as Arsenal were forced to settle for a 2-2 draw despite dominating for most of the contest.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why is Xhaka receiving criticism? Five things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Xhaka gave away a penalty against Tottenham on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>The midfielder was outshone by Matteo Guendouzi in the derby.<\/li>\n<li>Martin Keown and Paul Merson have since publicly criticised the Arsenal skipper.<\/li>\n<li>Xhaka&#8217;s tackling has been a cause for concern for some time.<\/li>\n<li>But Parlour has leaped to the 26-year-old&#8217;s defence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7354781-emery-must-resist-his-crystal-palace-tribute-act-to-punish-unsettled-spurs\/embed\/v4?image_option=full\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former Arsenal duo Martin Keown and Paul Merson have been quick to pick apart Xhaka&#8217;s display, with both suggesting the Switzerland international shouldn&#8217;t be in the starting line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in his column for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-7417019\/Arsenal-News-saw-against-Tottenham-classic-Granit-Xhaka-worst.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>, Keown said: &#8220;This is what Xhaka does. He is like a fire engine that turns up and discovers the house has already burned down \u2013 he&#8217;s that late! He does more damage than good when it comes to tackling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suspect Xhaka may be on borrowed time in this team. He could soon find himself behind others in the pecking order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Merson later appeared on Sky Sports, and when asked what Xhaka brings to the squad, he replied:\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0I honestly sit here and I don\u2019t know what he brings to the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t score a goal, he doesn\u2019t have assists, he gets booked, he makes rash challenges, he gives away cheap penalties, he doesn\u2019t sit in front of the back four as a number six to break things up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you asked me what has he got, I\u2019d say he\u2019s got a hard shot. I don\u2019t want to be disrespectful but I\u2019ve got to say I don\u2019t know what he brings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1104405\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/european-deadline-day-done-deals-missed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1104405\" class=\"wp-image-1104405 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/02153144\/DoneDeals-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"European deadline day done deals\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/02153144\/DoneDeals-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/02153144\/DoneDeals-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/02153144\/DoneDeals-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/02153144\/DoneDeals-1-66x37.jpg 66w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/02153144\/DoneDeals-1-620x350.jpg 620w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/02153144\/DoneDeals-1-940x530.jpg 940w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/02153144\/DoneDeals-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1104405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/european-deadline-day-done-deals-missed\">Done deals you may have missed on European deadline day<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Parlour acknowledged Xhaka didn&#8217;t have the best of derbies but went on to stand up for him, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/596814\/arsenal-news-ray-parlour-granit-xhaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talkSPORT<\/a>: \u201cXhaka is good on the ball, he\u2019s decent!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can spray passes 25 or 30 yards no problem, he\u2019s very good at doing that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes he fits in and keeps it simple, but at the weekend he didn\u2019t have a good game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know when you\u2019ve not had a good game as a player and I\u2019m sure he knew that at the end but he\u2019s got to get back now, he\u2019s skipper, he can\u2019t let it worry him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXhaka has just got to calm down sometimes, he\u2019s got to be a bit more clever, you\u2019ve got to be clever as a player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re captain you can\u2019t make mistakes like he did and give the other team opportunities to score goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the penalty, it was a really poor decision from him to go in like that. You can\u2019t just dive in like that. He\u2019s got to learn from that, he\u2019s got to be a bit more disciplined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Transfer Record! Where was \u00a35 BILLION Spent by Top 5 Leagues?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2AooFfSupc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The cases for and against Xhaka<\/h2>\n<p>Xhaka made his Arsenal debut in August 2016. Since then, no player has conceded more penalties than the Switzerland international in the Premier League (5).<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was fortunate to escape a yellow card for his challenge on Son Heung-min that led to Tottenham&#8217;s penalty on Sunday \u2013 he was later booked and so, was arguably lucky not to see red.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Xhaka has a habit of picking up yellow cards. Only two players \u2013 Jose Holebas (35) and Oriel Romeu (34) \u2013 have been booked more often than Xhaka (27) since the beginning of the 2016\/17 Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1104926\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1104926\" class=\"wp-image-1104926 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/04180750\/mohamed-salah-granit-xhaka-liverpool-arsenal-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/04180750\/mohamed-salah-granit-xhaka-liverpool-arsenal-2019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/04180750\/mohamed-salah-granit-xhaka-liverpool-arsenal-2019-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/04180750\/mohamed-salah-granit-xhaka-liverpool-arsenal-2019-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/04180750\/mohamed-salah-granit-xhaka-liverpool-arsenal-2019-66x46.jpg 66w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1104926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xhaka battles with Mohamed Salah as Arsenal lose to Liverpool<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He has conceded 149 fouls in that time, the joint-eighth most in the division. That said, his tackling has been useful; he has won more tackles (143) than any other Arsenal player since his debut, and only six players in the Premier League have won more.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Xhaka boasts other attributes ignored by Keown and Merson. He has made 1,274 passes into the final third since his Premier League debut, more than any other player and more than double any of his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Mesut Ozil (229) and Alexis Sanchez (129) are the only players to have created more chances in the league for Arsenal than Xhaka (119) during the time-frame in question.<\/p>\n<p><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='https:\/\/embed.playbuzz.com\/sdk.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','playbuzz-sdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"playbuzz\" data-id=\"66c974de-b77b-4864-9922-f0029ea5359e\" data-show-info=\"false\" data-show-share=\"false\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Parlour has defended Granit Xhaka following criticism of the Arsenal captain&#8217;s performance against Tottenham Hotspur in Sunday&#8217;s north London derby. 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