People only want to talk about players as caricatures, as symbols of something, usually a failure: perhaps a bad season, defensive frailty or a tendency to 'bottle'.
It has happened to Granit Xhaka. It has happened to Harry Maguire. And it is happening to Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Growing pains for this Arsenal team, they still half commit in their counterpressing, no anticipation of where they lose the ball, and find it hard to sustain their aggressiveness.
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