Ian Wright admitted he was ‘very surprised’ by Arsenal’s tactics during their Champions League semi-final first leg defeat to PSG.
The Gunners stunned defending European champions Real Madrid within the last round and were hoping for more success against Paris Saint-Germain.
But Arsenal might want to overturn a one-goal deficit in Paris next week after suffering a 1-0 defeat on the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night.
PSG dominated the early exchanges and Ousmane Dembele’s 4th-minute goal was enough to separate the edges.
Wright was ‘very surprised’ by Arsenal’s subdued begin to the tie and says the Gunners ‘missed a trick’ by not taking the sport to PSG.
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‘I don’t wish to be negative concerning the team but I’m very surprised by the beginning of the sport,’ he said on the Wrighty’s House podcast.
‘I wasn’t expecting that start. To be honest I used to be expecting PSG to back off however it was the opposite way around, it was the other.
‘We must always have been pressing them however it didn’t occur. That’s the disappointing thing, without being too negative.
‘I feel we actually missed a trick in the best way we began, we didn’t reap the benefits of the group who were able to scream and shout.
‘I feel we got away with out often because we didn’t start like I believed we’d, I used to be very surprised by that.
‘I’d love to listen to Mikel Arteta’s post-match interview because I would like to listen to what he says concerning the start.
‘I cannot fathom that you could have a team like PSG come to your house and your tactics are to sit down off them and allow them to play it out from the back and ease across the halfway line.’
PSG have arguably been the standout team on this 12 months’s Champions League, having eliminated Liverpool and Aston Villa within the last two rounds.
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The French champions are 90 minutes away from the Champions League final but Wright still has hope that his beloved Arsenal can pull off a comeback.
‘It’s only 1-0 but PSG did look impressive,’ Wright added. ‘But anyone would should you give them that much time and space in a semi-final at your house.
‘PSG are going to try to finish that game in the primary 20 minutes and Arsenal must be very much ready for that.
‘We’re within the semi-finals and that is it for our season, the league is gone. That is all we’ve got left. So I used to be expecting a performance because that is it now.
‘I even have got confidence in us because we’ve shown it before, we’ve shown we’ve got the balls to do it. I just hope we will.’
Arsenal return to Premier League motion against Bournemouth this weekend before preparing for his or her huge clash within the French capital.
PSG, already crowned Ligue 1 champions, visit Strasbourg on Saturday.
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