AMIE O’HARA

BLASTS ARSENAL
28-YEAR-OLD AND
SAYS HE WILL NOW
COST THEM THE
PREMIER LEAGUE
TITLE AFTER
LUTON WIN
Amir Mir
Wed 6 December 2023 5:55, UK

Hours after a dramatic win over Luton Town,

Arsenal fans will still be celebrating sitting top of
the Premier League table by five points.
Just a few more seconds, that’s all it took. Luton
needed a few more moments to hang on and they
would have secured a deserved 3-3 draw at Kenilworth
Road.

But in the big moments, those big players step up and

that’s what happened with Declan Rice and his 97-
minute winner for a jubilant Arsenal side.

Saying all of that. David Raya, you are one lucky boy
because he made two glaring errors during the game
and it nearly cost Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal, big time!

Jamie O’Hara made it pretty clear on talkSPORT that if

Arsenal continue with the on-loan Brentford star as
their goalkeeper then, ‘I don’t think they can win the
league’.

All of this will now land back on the doorstep of Mikel

Arteta and his call to drop his previous number one,
Aaron Ramsdale, for David Raya when many felt that he
didn’t need to – Rob Holding has previously shared his
thoughts.

He needs to bite the bullet on that one because, so far,

it’s not looking good for him and Jamie O’Hara thinks
the £85k-a-week star (Spotrac) will continue to be
troublesome for his Premier League title-chasing side.

Will Arsenal win the Premier League

title with David Raya?
“What I will say on this is that, I don’t believe Arsenal
can win the league with that goalkeeper,” said O’Hara.

“If you look at the best teams that win every year.
Mostly Manchester City or Liverpool. They have the
best keepers. Petr Cech, Edwin van der Sar, Peter
Schmeichel, Alisson Becker and Ederson.

“For me, Arsenal can’t win the Premier League with

David Raya in goal. That’s where I think they got it
wrong. If you are going to upgrade from Ramsdale,
then you have to upgrade properly. David Raya isn’t
that guy. He will cost them.

“He got away with it tonight. Declan Rice steps up.

Havertz scores as well. Big moment for them, they win
4-3. Arsenal fans will be buzzing. But when you look at
it, in the grand scheme of things, David Raya is a
problem for them.”
Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images

Declan Rice has bailed out David

Raya
In truth, even though Arsenal have secured such a
dramatic three points, it’s still a talking point, but it
would have been much bigger had they dropped
points.

But the great Arsenal goalkeeping debate of the season

will rear its ugly head again.
Every time there is a piece of action, whether good or
bad, from Raya, then the cameras will pan to Ramsdale
sitting on the bench.

And yes, sometimes the media do hype it up. But, you

can’t hide away from what Raya did yesterday because
those two errors were just not on and he got away with
it.

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