To Guardiola it would be Cech mate
THE fact Petr Cech took to Twitter on Sunday to take the blame for Arsenal’s defeat at Brighton was admirable and it showed the mark of the man.
But I can’t help thinking that Pep Guardiola or Jose Mourinho would not have given him the opportunity to make those two mistakes in the first place.
They would have been looking at Cech this season and asking, ‘Can he give us the kind of performances we need week in, week out and have we got a No.2 as good as him to challenge for the jersey?’
The answer to both questions would probably be, ‘No’.
I also wonder what kind of malaise there must be in the Gunners’ dressing room if a world-class keeper who has been there and done it all is going into a pressured game like that one and making those sort of ricks.
He is one of the greatest goalkeepers the Premier League has seen and his hackles should have been raised.
But they weren’t and that says so much about what is — or isn’t — going on in training under Arsene Wenger every day.
None of those Arsenal players can be pushing the others if they are getting to a match day and being so off it, and Cech (right) will know that as well as anyone.