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Arsenal: Fans slate Hector Bellerin after last night’s rescue act from Nicolas Pepe
Arsenal fans were slating Hector Bellerin for his performance in the 3-2 win over Vitoria S.C. in the Europa League.
The Spain international is making his way back to full fitness after suffering a serious knee injury in the win over Chelsea last season.
Bellerin lost possession of the ball the joint-third number of times and committed the joint-second most number of fouls of any Arsenal player in last night’s game (via WhoScored).
Arsenal’s blushes were spared as two late Nicolas Pepe goals saw the Gunners seal a dramatic victory.
Bellerin’s start yesterday was his third of the season, however, the Spanish fullback is yet to start a game in the Premier League for the Gunners (via Transfermarkt).
Bellerin seemed to send a thinly-veiled dig at manager Unai Emery about the club’s style of play, claiming it’s in the club’s DNA to play better football (via Caught Offside).
Fans weren’t too pleased with the 24-year-old’s performance as they took to Twitter to react.
Here is a selection of tweets from the Emirates Stadium faithful:
Yesterday’s game shows that Bellerin and Holding are not quite up for it yet, but Tierney must start on Sunday!
— ForeverGunner (@ForeverGunner3) October 25, 2019
Bellerin isn’t ready, you can see from EL games. Still a bit off and Chambers doing okay for now. Defo the rest but who we kidding
— Ⓒ (@shahriyarnadeem) October 25, 2019
Sure. Bellerin didn’t perform well last night too.
— Alaye jor jor jor Enjoy Your Life (@Iam_TestedOk) October 25, 2019
I’ve been critical of Emery so far this season, but yesterday we saw that holding, bellerin and Tierney aren’t ready for PL yet. He gave the kids the stage but a few of them had bad games. I’m not sweating that as it’s minutes played for some. + martinelli and Pepe showed class.
— Amstar247 (@Amstar247) October 25, 2019
Top notch,but bellerin seems he needs time to come back fully…his tackle as not been so good since returning from injury.
— aiyela micheal igbekele (@AiyelaJamez) October 25, 2019
Martinelli tried. I don’t think bellerin is fully fit tho. Or he’s still rusty.
— Alaye jor jor jor Enjoy Your Life (@Iam_TestedOk) October 25, 2019
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