Ben White looked out of sorts during Arsenal’s recent match against Liverpool as the defender faced Fabio Carvalho on the right wing.
The game was another high-profile friendly for the Gunners, but Liverpool was missing many of their key players who have not returned for pre-season yet.
Mikel Arteta’s team was considered much stronger than Liverpool on paper, especially because several of their main men are back and their form in the last campaign.
However, Liverpool played well and dominated parts of the fixture, with Arsenal struggling to break them down.
One interesting battle during the game was the constant matchup between White and Carvalho. The Liverpool man seemed to get the better of the Arsenal star, who did not miss a chance to kick him.
Arsenal fans did not like how White handled the former RB Leipzig loanee, and a report on Football Insider claims most of them were disappointed with the defender’s performance in the duel.
Carvalho hardly played football in the first half of last season, forcing Liverpool to recall him from his loan spell at RB Leipzig, but he seemed to get the better of White in the match.
Just Arsenal Opinion
White is an effective player and simply had a day to forget at the office, so there is no need to panic.
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Hopefully Timber will give him a healthy competition this season, every player need to be their sharpest every game.
We were just off the plane from the west coast whereas Liverpool had been there all week.
The schedule of these American pre-season friendlies is hectic.
I don’t worry about the results, just hope that nobody gets injured. Both Man Utd and Brentford have lost players but so far we are OK.
Good points. I’m actually find of glad that the American schedule is hectic as it at least mentally helps prepare the players for the rigors to come when it matters.
“kind” not “find” of glad
Someone is nitpicking because we lost, very narrowly we lost, that is. Result the other way round and we’d be world beaters and White wouldn’t have been the subject of a story like this.
Look, it’s a pre-season friendly for goodness’ sake so let’s not get too carried away with individual performances.
I imagine that the squad as a whole will probably be more fatigued travelling the estimated 11,500 miles round trip to play one completely meaningless match (vs. Bournemouth) in front of 13,000 (a record low?) and two matches against much bigger opposition but with so many changes as to make them pretty meaningless as well.
They are useful for fitness levels and seeing youngsters handle pressure of big crowds. And practising new tactical moves ahead of the real deal
No concern whatsoever, once the season starts White will be back to his reliable self.
Let’s see now, we were missing Saka, Rice, Saliba. Nobody of importance. Geez. This is preseason. White’s just fine.