According to the 63-year-old, Emery making the Gunners try and play out from the back (something Cech clearly found difficult) only gave Manchester City the upper hand seeing as they are a team that likes to press.
“This is the manager’s fault. It’s his fault.
“Don’t ask somebody to do against Manchester City what you shouldn’t do, and you should not play out like that against Manchester City.
“What do Manchester City do? Press press press. So why do you try and play out when they press press press?
“Even the Arsenal crowd cheered when they dropped one in the opposition half. You cannot just force the only way to play is this way in this country.
“We are getting obsessed with this stupid let’s play out from the back, split the centre-halves, either side of the 18-yard box and go and play from there… (it’s) utter rubbish to play like that all of the time.”
One notable moment when this playing style almost backfired is when Petr Cech almost passed the ball into the back of his own net after coming under some pressure from Aguero.
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