Ramsdale calls on "tense" Gunners to play with more freedom – Arseblog News

Aaron Ramsdale lamented a very tense and slow performance as Arsenal suffered a hugely damaging 2-1 defeat at home to Brighton.

Coming into the game off the back of Mondays 3-0 defeat at Crystal Palace, manager Mikel Arteta had emphasised a need to put things right immediately but the Spaniards tactical decisions seem to throw his players off their game as they produced a horribly cumbersome showing.

Despite problems of their own in recent months, Graham Potters side had little problem containing Arsenals attacking unit and on the break they showed a ruthless side as Leandro Trossard and Enock Mwepu finished off slick moves either side of half time.

Its not good enough, Ramsdale told Arsenal.com. Two games on the spin where the first 45 minutes has got away from us. You make it an uphill battle against any team in the Premier League if youre losing at halftime.

We were not in the rhythm of the game, thats unlike us, especially at home where weve normally started really well all season. It was a really poor performance and as I said we, went to the end but thats a given at any club, especially this club. When you give a team a step up in the Premier League its always hard to get back in the game.

One-nil down is tough enough, two-nil down in the Premier League is even harder, so if wed have got the first goal back even earlier we might have pushed and pushed but there was too much to do in the end.

Todays defeat means Arsenals hopes of qualifying for the Champions League are no longer in their own hands. Whats more with a daunting run of games ahead, its going to be a real scramble to even secure a place in the Europa League.

The manager said afterwards that his players lacked purpose, created a cold atmosphere and are currently on a road that is taking us nowhere.

If the pressure is on, Ramsdale is keen for the players to try and strip things back to basics.

This was supposed to be the reaction game but it wasnt, he said.

Weve lost and not managed to pick up any points and next week is even bigger. I think we just need to go out there and be free and play our game, you know?

Its a game of football and I think in the first half we were very tense and slow so we just need to go out there next week, trust what the manager and the coaching staff are saying and go and play our football, which weve done all season.

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