‘SOUNESS NEEDS TO DITCH POGBA JIBES’

their hosts. Since the resumption, half of the games have been won by the visitors, while in only 12 of the 56 matches have the home side triumphed.

It is a phenomenon Arteta (with Pep Guardiola, below) has been monitoring closely.

“I watched some aspects which I think you can take advantage of,” he said. “But I think you need to experience it.

“When there is no crowd and you can’t feel the energy, that push and the drive, the game is different. The intensity drops a little bit and the physical state of the players is not what it was three months ago.

“We have to take every game the same way, to go there and win the game. We know every stadium is completely different. I have to focus and try to convince my players to focus on what we have to do.

“We cannot control everything that Manchester City do. It’s impossible. It would drive the players mad to try to do that.

“So I just try to convince them what we can do to beat them, the best plan possible for us to have the best chance to compete for 90 minutes and win it.”

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FROM BACK PAGE striker, who even reported Souness to the PFA over his treatment, claims he’s out of touch with the modern game because his thinking is so old-fashioned.

“Back then, Graeme was a bully,” said Cole. “And I was basically saying to Graeme, ‘Bullying don’t work’.

“He was an unbelievable midfield player back in his day, but when a man is set in his way, he looks at the game totally different to what it is now. And that is him.”

Cole is frustrated by Souness (left) and his repeated attacks on Pogba, after the Scot labelled the £89million midfielder selfish and questioned his commitment to United.

Cole added: “When he talks about Pogba, I get frustrated.

“Yeah, he hasn’t played as well as he would have liked, but a man won’t win the World Cup unless he can play the game. He’s got every attribute.

“Not every player can play like Graeme Souness. But not every player can play like Pogba.”