Martin Keown told Premier League Productions (22/08/21 at 7:15 pm) that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ‘looked sharp’ during his cameo appearance of Arsenal’s 2-0 defeat to Chelsea on Sunday.
After Aubameyang’s absence because of COVID, he returned to action yesterday as Arsenal fell to another defeat in the Premier League.
The Arsenal captain came on as a second-half substitute and managed to get half an hour under his belt at the Emirates.
During the brief time he was on the field, Keown liked what he saw from the speedster and now he wants him to start the next Premier League game.
“In the final third, they looked extremely disappointing,” said Keown. “Aubameyang looked sharp when he came on.
“But maybe he needs to start games now. COVID has played a part in the start of this. But this is a terrible start. Man City to come next.
“And I can feel the pressure building in the stadium, the fans are getting tetchy, people getting angry and a lot of people leaving early. He needs to turn it around it very quickly.”
It’s going to be interesting if Aubameyang actually starts Arsenal’s League Cup tie against West Brom.
He needs the minutes ahead of that Man City game, plus many of his other teammates just need to get their engine going after back-to-back defeats.
But if the worst happens and the Gunners are knocked out then there will be serious anger vented from the supporters.
Arteta is on the edge and he doesn’t have much rope to pull, even after two games, and the simple reason is because of what happened last season.
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