{"id":1114960,"date":"2019-11-11T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T11:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1114960"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T11:06:48","slug":"tony-adams-arsenal-losing-mentality-leicester-defeat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/tony-adams-arsenal-losing-mentality-leicester-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Adams bemoans Arsenal&#8217;s losing mentality after &#8216;as expected&#8217; Leicester defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arsenal legend Tony Adams has lambasted his former club&#8217;s autumnal form and believes they posses a &#8216;losing&#8217; mentality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gunners produced a limp performance as high-flying Leicester City cruised to a 2-0 victory at the King Power Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Are Arsenal losing their mentality? Five things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In a potentially season-defining match, Leicester City beat Arsenal 2-0 on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>Jamie Vardy and James Maddison earned the three points for Brendan Rodgers&#8217; side.<\/li>\n<li>That win has taken Leicester to second in the Premier League table, above Man City.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, Arsenal are currently languishing in sixth, eight points adrift the top four.<\/li>\n<li>The result also means Arsenal are now winless in five successive matches.<\/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\/7417751\/embed\/v4\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Goals from Jamie Vardy and James Maddison compiled further misery on Unai Emery, whose tenure is appearing to be increasingly untenable with every passing week.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has endured a lukewarm start to his second season in the Arsenal dugout, with some match-going supporters even calling for his departure.<\/p>\n<p>That recent frustration and criticism has now started to filter through to pundits and club affiliates, with Adams particularly unimpressed with the recent showings, though he did\u00a0stop short of completely blaming Emery, instead pointing his finger at the powers that be at Arsenal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arsenal                        Robert<br \/>                               Lewandowski<\/p>\n<p>                    ?<br \/>          16 league goals<br \/>             this season<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1193246341780119555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sky Sports after the game, he said (via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-7668449\/Tony-Adams-slates-Arsenals-mentality-Leicester-loss-DEFENDS-Unai-Emery.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>): &#8220;The recruitment has been poor for a few years now. The manager must be pulling his hair out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We came here expecting a good hiding and we got one. It&#8217;s infectious once you&#8217;ve got that mentality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s easy to blame Emery. He&#8217;s doing his best with what he&#8217;s got. It&#8217;s a bigger problem than this coach, it really is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Liverpool &amp; Man City Ranked From Worst to Best\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BWBVox9fE_g?start=288&#038;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><strong>Adams backs Emery<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There has been a growing anxiety presiding over the Emirates these past few weeks, but Adams has backed Emery to stick it out.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the Spaniard came into the job during difficult circumstances last season but ultimately proved to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about a new manager coming in, Adams replied: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so, he&#8217;ll get an initial lift, but what are you looking for? Last year, I thought he [Emery] did an unbelievable job. So many changes&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Redknapp also chimed in on the debate, suggesting Arsenal simply don&#8217;t have an elite-level pool of players.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;How many Arsenal players would get in that Leicester team? I&#8217;m struggling to name one. Would you swap [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang for Vardy? Not right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend Tony Adams has lambasted his former club&#8217;s autumnal form and believes they posses a &#8216;losing&#8217; mentality. The Gunners produced a limp performance as high-flying Leicester City cruised to a 2-0 victory at the King Power Stadium on Saturday. Are Arsenal losing their mentality? Five things to know&#8230; In a potentially season-defining match, Leicester&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1114961,"parent":0,"menu_order":4337,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Arsenal news: Adams slams Gunners' losing mentality | Premier League","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Arsenal legend Tony Adams has lambasted his former club's autumnal form and believes they are losing their mentality.","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1114960","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Arsenal news: Adams slams Gunners&#039; losing mentality | Premier League<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Arsenal legend Tony Adams has lambasted his former club&#039;s autumnal form and believes they are losing their mentality.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/tony-adams-arsenal-losing-mentality-leicester-defeat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tony Adams bemoans Arsenal&#039;s losing mentality after &#039;as expected&#039; 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