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Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has responded to criticism of head coach Mikel Arteta ahead of Wednesday\u2019s match against Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n
The Gunners<\/strong> have endured a difficult April as their hopes of winning an unprecedented quadruple have ended, having failed in the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n Arsenal\u2019s Premier League title hopes have also faded, with Man City to win the race if they take maximum points from their remaining matches (and finish with a greater goal difference).<\/p>\n Arteta<\/strong>\u2018s side have the welcome distraction of their Champions League semi-final first leg against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night, though.<\/p>\n The Arsenal boss will come under immense pressure if they fail to win a single trophy this season, and he has also faced criticism over his overly \u201cpragmatic\u201d style of play.<\/p>\n But Henry has encouraged Arsenal supporters to \u201caccept\u201d Arteta\u2019s way of playing.<\/p>\n \u201cAtletico lost at The Emirates, I think it was 4-0 in the league phase, which doesn\u2019t tell you a lot but it tells you it\u2019s a game where we created, actually,\u201d Henry told CBS Sports.<\/p>\n READ: Viktor Gyokeres among five Arsenal stars fighting for their futures with Arteta \u2018open\u2019 to sale \u201cBut it will be different. The win, Arsenal against Newcastle, in terms of how we played wasn\u2019t outstanding but it\u2019s way better to go into that game with a win against Newcastle.<\/p>\n \u201cSo let\u2019s see what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow. It\u2019s not so much what I want to see, people are expecting or wanting Arsenal to play a certain way now, they didn\u2019t the whole year. Why do you want them now to just go forward and start to create?<\/p>\n \u201cThey play a certain way, Mikel Arteta plays a certain way, we\u2019re strong on set-pieces, solid, we don\u2019t create a lot.<\/p>\n \u201cI would just like to see a win, that will do for me and bring something to The Emirates.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to be pragmatic sometimes. You cannot always be Bayern Munich or Paris Saint-Germain, we play a different way. I think people have to accept the fact that Mikel Arteta goes about the game like that and hopefully we can win.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: Ten Premier League transfer mistakes from 2025 that need fixing in 2026 Arsenal and Arteta have arguably been made to look worse by the remarkable football on show during PSG\u2019s extraordinary 5-4 win against Bayern Munich on Tuesday.<\/p>\n And despite defending Arsenal, Henry has acknowledged how much he enjoyed the \u201ccrazy\u201d game between PSG and Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n \u201cRisks. We\u2019ve been talking about how we watch a lot of teams that do not take any risks,\u201d Henry added on PSG vs Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n \u201cWingers that don\u2019t dribble, people that don\u2019t go forward (and) they\u2019re thinking about not losing the game instead of winning it.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, tonight, we have plenty of risk situations at times.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Man City \u2018furious\u2019 but PL fixture decision justified as \u2018unfortunate\u2019 Arsenal title excuse removed \u201cMaybe if you think about (it and) if you have your defensive hat on, you\u2019ll go crazy on some stuff that you might see or (what) you saw tonight. But I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know what, we\u2019ve been complaining for more than one year or one-and-a-half or two years that football is \u2018boring\u2019 in brackets and whatnot.<\/p>\n \u201cThat game wasn\u2019t boring. And again, if you put your professional hat on, we\u2019re gonna have to analyse some stuff about the goals that were conceded.<\/p>\n \u201cBut you know what? I enjoyed myself and I think everybody at home enjoyed themselves.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just crazy, as you said, that\u2019s a score you see normally on aggregate at the end of a tie.<\/p>\n \u201cYou saw that, it was just crazy at times.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
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