Wright blasts Arteta’s ‘FRIGHTENING’ tactics against Chelsea after ‘unprepared’ Arsenal struggled to stop Lukaku

IAN WRIGHT has labelled Arsenal's performance against Chelsea on Sunday 'frightening' as he mourns the state of his current team.

The legendary striker was one of many Gunners supporters forced to witness Arsenal drift to an insipid 2-0 defeat against their London rivals.

Manager Mikel Arteta has come under increasing pressure since the start of the campaign, which has seen them endure back-to-back defeats without scoring a goal - marking the club's worst start in their 118-year history.

And Wright had some damning words for his former club while working as a pundit on Match of the Day.

When asked if he thought they had improved on the Brentford defeat, he said: "No they didn't, especially coming off of the Brentford game which was really quite disappointing.

"Brentford… we know what they are coming from, we know what they are going to be like, it looked like we weren't prepared for them.  

'When you looked at the way that Chelsea played us today and the way Lukaku played, either they are not prepared, they are not listening, or they can't perform what he wants them to do."

He then went on to add: "What I saw today, apart from Lokonga, I thought he was very good today, [Nicolas] Pepe did a bit in places, I thought we looked really bereft of anything that we were doing.

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"I don't know what the tactics were. Because when you look how easily they were able to breach. For me it was quite frightening."

After the first two games of the new Premier League season Arsenal sit in the bottom three.

But Arteta remains confident both he and the players have what it takes to turn their fortunes around.

Following the Chelsea defeat, the Spaniard said: "I must thank the fans, even when things were looking difficult they tried to give the players a boost.

"I see a lot of positives with the crowd and the team today.

"At the end I didn't see any bad reaction with any of the players. But that is my opinion.

Feeling sorry for yourself does not help. You have to face the challenge, face the criticism - because it will come."

Next up for Arsenal is a trip to face West Brom in the EFL Cup, before they return to Premier League action by visiting champions Manchester City.

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