{"id":11148,"date":"2025-01-20T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:25:28","slug":"ian-wright-thinks-arsenal-star-should-not-be-playing-right-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11148","title":{"rendered":"Ian Wright Thinks Arsenal Star Should Not Be Playing Right-Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2176947591-1-1140x735-1-1024x660.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2176947591-1-1140x735-1-1024x660.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2176947591-1-1140x735-1-300x193.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2176947591-1-1140x735-1-768x495.webp 768w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2176947591-1-1140x735-1.webp 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Arsenal legend, Ian Wright has kicked against the decision to deploy Thomas Partey at the right-back position.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mikel Arteta has been forced to deploy the Ghana midfielder at the right-back position due to injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Partey has survived the test in past games but has come under pressure for his sloppy performance against Aston Villa on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gunners appeared to be on course to secure back-to-back wins as goals from Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz put the Gunners two in front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Villa pulled a goal back through Youri Tielemans before Ollie Watkins capitalised on poor defending from Thomas Partey to volley past David Raya from close range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With the players available, I think Thomas Partey should not be playing at the defense,&#8221; Wright said on Premier League Production after the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He is a midfielder and that is where should be playing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draw against Villa has left Arsenal six points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool,&nbsp;who beat Brentford 2-0 earlier on Saturday and also have a game in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arsenal will hope to return to winning ways when they host Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League before travelling to play Wolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend, Ian Wright has kicked against the decision to deploy Thomas Partey at the right-back position. Mikel Arteta has been forced to deploy the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}