The former Arsenal and Leicester centre-back has been impressed with their blossoming midfield partnership.
Former Arsenal and Leicester City defender Frank McLintock has told TalkSPORT his old clubs are similar in one area of the pitch.
The Gunners appear to have rediscovered their form heading into the season’s closing stages, having swept aside Everton and Watford by an aggregate score of 6-0 over the past two matches.
Despite this, Arsene Wenger’s men trail the Foxes by 11 points – although they do have a game in hand.
However, there is one area where the two teams are on par according to McLintock.
“From Arsenal’s point of view it (Watford) was a really good performance, especially in the centre of midfield – (Mohamed) Elneny and (Francis) Coquelin,” the Scot said during the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on Monday.
“They’re a little bit like Leicester (midfielders Ngolo Kante and Danny Drinkwater) – they let one go forward, the other one’s holding. And then if the other one (Coquelin) wants to go Elneny will hold his ground.”
Elneny, for whom Arsenal paid in the region of £5 million from FC Basel in January, according to the BBC, has impressed since breaking into the Gunners’ side in recent weeks.
And the north Londoners are unbeaten in each of the three league games in which the Egyptian has been paired with Coquelin from the start.
Despite his impressive form over the past 18 months, the latter is yet to be capped by France at senior level and was recently overlooked in favour of Leicester’s Kante.
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