Two Arsenal stars accused of ‘going missing’ as Mikel Arteta told to take action

and have been accused of ‘going missing’ for following Tuesday’s defeat to in the semi-finals of the .The Magpies will take a two-goal lead into the second leg at St James’ Park, . missed a succession of chances to score, with their 23 shots in the game worth a combined 3.09 expected goals. However, they were wasteful in attack and never managed to get the ball into the net.Their best opportunity of the match fell to Havertz, who got his bearings all wrong and inexplicably headed wide from close range in the second half.

After the final whistle, former Watford striker Troy Deeney accused Havertz and Jesus of failing to perform in big moments. He also blasted for not adding a prolific striker to his squad in previous transfer windows.Speaking on , Deeney said: “They do the same patterns of play, going down one side and trying to play inside, trying to get a third man runner.”All that did, they just went [banks of] five and five and said: ‘Go on, break us down’. They couldn’t do it. Yes, they had a couple of chances, but the chance that came to Martinelli was a turnover. It wasn’t exactly that they worked it.”The rest were from bits on corners, so it’s not exactly like they are breaking teams down. The one problem we’ve thrown at ‘s door for the last two years, they need a striker and every year Mikel chooses not to do that.

“He goes with Gabby and he goes with Havertz and he thinks they can do it, but in the crunch time, those guys go missing unfortunately and that’s what happened today.”Arteta, meanwhile, suggested after the match that his players struggled to finish because they were not used to the ball, which was slightly different to the one used in the .”We kicked a lot of balls over the bar, and it’s tricky that these balls fly a lot so there’s details that we can do better, but at the end that’s gone, there’s no way back,” .”It’s about the next game and that’s our world, the reality is our world. It’s just half-time. When I see the team play, and how we deal with a lot of situations and play against a very good team, I must say I have full belief that we can go out there and do it.”