Sam Allardyce has slammed Unai Emery's decision to try and play out from the back against Manchester City in Arsenal's defeat to the champions on Sunday afternoon.
Emery's reign in charge of the north London club got off to a bad start at the Emirates, with goals from Raheem Sterling and Bernardo Silva in each half handing all three points to the visitors.
Arsenal particularly struggled to build from the back, with Petr Cech unable to adjust and almost passing the ball into his own net, but Allardyce resisted calls to bring in Bernd Leno and believes Emery need to adjust his approach.
'It's the manager's fault. It's his fault,' Allardyce said on talkSPORT.
'Don't ask somebody to do, against Manchester City, what you shouldn't do - and you should not play out like that against Manchester City.
'What do Manchester City do? Press, press, press. So why is he trying to play out when they press, press, press?
'I mean, even the Arsenal crowd cheered when [Cech] dropped one in the opposition's half.
'You cannot just force the only way to play is this way in this country.
'We are getting obsessed with this stupid let's play out from the back, split the centre-halves either side of the 18-yard box and go and play from there. It's utter rubbish to consider to play like that all the time.'
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