EPL: ‘No longer sharp, quick’ – Carragher names who to blame for Arsenal’s first goal against Chelsea

Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher has blamed Chelsea’s summertime signing Emiliano Martinez for Arsenal’s archetypal extremity successful the Gunners’ 2-1 triumph implicit Xabi Alonso’s broadside successful the Premier League on Sunday.

Chelsea visited the Emirates Stadium on Sunday with the volition of maintaining their cleanable commencement to the caller play and sending a title-challenge connection to the reigning champions.

Morgan Rogers provided Chelsea with an perfect start, scoring with a volley from the borderline of the container wrong the archetypal 2 minutes.

However, Kai Havertz equalised against his erstwhile squad midway done the archetypal fractional with a changeable that Martinez was incapable to prevention astatine his adjacent post.

Arsenal displayed a flimsy superiority passim the match, and Martin Odegaard’s extremity soon aft half-time proved decisive.

Carragher opined that portion signing Martinez for simply £7.5 cardinal was a ‘fantastic deal’, the erstwhile Aston Villa goalkeeper has shown that helium is nary longer astatine his peak.

Analysing Havertz’s equaliser for Arsenal connected Sky Sports, Carragher said: “I deliberation the goalkeeper...