{"id":16120,"date":"2025-09-22T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=639643"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:52:02","slug":"if-arsenal-win-the-league-itll-be-down-to-the-defence-jamie-carragher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/if-arsenal-win-the-league-itll-be-down-to-the-defence-jamie-carragher\/","title":{"rendered":"If Arsenal win the league, it\u2019ll be down to the defence: Jamie Carragher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legend footballer and modern day pundit Jamie Carragher has slammed Arsenal following their game against Manchester City last night. It was ended in 1-1 as Arsenal scored the late equaliser. City were nearly there, but Martinelli helped Arsenal take points at Emirates. However, Jamie Carragher feels Arsenal are more into defence rather than attack.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal rescued a late point at the Emirates on Sunday night as Gabriel Martinelli\u2019s strike earned them a 1-1 draw against Manchester City. Pep Guardiola\u2019s side looked set to walk away with all three points until the Brazilian winger\u2019s equaliser shifted the momentum.<\/p>\n<p>However, former Liverpool defender and Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher was unimpressed with Arsenal\u2019s overall approach, claiming Mikel Arteta\u2019s side are becoming too reliant on their defensive solidity rather than attacking flair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Arsenal win the league, it\u2019ll be down to their defence,\u201d Carragher said after the game. While he praised the Gunners\u2019 backline for showing resilience against one of the best attacking teams in Europe, he insisted that their frontline must show greater sharpness if they want to dominate the Premier League title race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend footballer and modern day pundit Jamie Carragher has slammed Arsenal following their game against Manchester City last night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,3918,3796,1200,3800,702,359],"class_list":["post-16120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-jamie-carragher","tag-manchester-city","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-pep-guardiola"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}