Arsenal continued their push towards the Premier League title with a comprehensive 2-0 victory over Manchester United on Wednesday night.
While the victory was well celebrated by Arsenal fans across the globe, some football fans are skeptical of the London club’s corner techniques. The Gunners managed to score both of their goals from set-pieces against Ruben Amorim’s Man United side.
Arsenal in the process have now scored more goals than any other side in the Premier League from set-pieces and their threat from this particular area has been widely recognised.
Reacting to this, former Manchester United star Gary Neville aimed a dig at Arsenal’s set-piece coach Nicolas Jover, calling him the “most annoying bloke in football”.
Arsenal set piece coach Nicolas Jover and manager Mikel Arteta (right) (Photo by Visionhaus/Getty Images)
Neville was part of a watchalong on The Overlap with Jamie Carragher, Ian Wright and Roy Keane.
The football pundit seemed unhappy with Jover and criticised him but Carragher was quick to defend the influential Arsenal man.
Neville said:
‘The set-piece coach at Arsenal, he’s got to be the most annoying bloke in football.
‘He’s got to be, hasn’t he? He’s got to be though, hasn’t he?’
Liverpool legend Carragher defended and praised the Arsenal coach by saying:
‘I’ll tell you what, give him what he wants.
‘If you was that set-piece coach for Arsenal, you could write your own contract, couldn’t you? You couldn’t get rid of him.
‘You know, if he said, “I want 25 grand a week”, you’d have to give it to him, wouldn’t you?’
Jover has turned things around at Arsenal with the club now a huge threat during corners and set-piece.
Arsenal are currently third on the table but level on point with Chelsea who sits second. Both teams are seven points behind league leaders Liverpool.
