The Red Devils narrowly defeated the eastern Transcaucasian country in their Euro 2024 qualifier thanks to a single goal from Yannick Carrasco.
Belgium lead Group F on goal difference from Austria – who also have ten points from four matches – but it was a far convincing performance against the team bottom of the group.
It wasn’t the most convincing performance from Domenico Tedesco’s side and former Belgium international Philippe Albert was frustrated at Trossard’s performance.
The 28-year-old, who joined Arsenal from Brighton in January, has only played 62 minutes of Premier League football so far this season at the Gunners and he played 79 minutes against Azerbaijan for his national team on Saturday,
Albert told Sud Info: “I saw that Tedesco covered the latter somewhat in the press conference, but the Arsenal player often did the complete opposite of what he should have done. That is to say, turn his opponent around instead of dropping back like he almost always did.
“There’s no point in coming to get the ball at Tielemans’ level. There are enough players on the halfway line to do the dirty work. If, after hitting the post at the very start of the game, Trossard slipped into relative anonymity, he owes it only to himself.”
William Saliba is one player who took a while to get into Mikel Arteta’s first team and now France and Arsenal legend Emmanuel Petit reckons the former St Etienne man has now “adapted to the demands of English football”.That’s according to former Belgian footballer Philippe Albert, speaking to Sud Info, who had a few things to say about the Gunners forward, who isn’t having the best time at his club of late either.
Pushed to the bench by Gabriel Martinelli, the 28-year-old only has 77 minutes of football under his belt for Arsenal this season, and actually played more than that in his appearance for Belgium, coming off after 79 minutes.
That being said, he didn’t find the back of the net nor get an assist against what many would have considered an easier opponent, and he only has himself to blame.
Albert was looking at the performance of Romelu Lukaku, who is still trying to find his legs after a summer of transfer saga, and the striker ‘was hardly helped’ by the Arsenal player.
The now pundit said: “I saw that Tedesco covered the latter somewhat in the press conference, but the Arsenal player often did the complete opposite of what he should have done. That is to say, turn his opponent around instead of dropping back like he almost always did.
“There’s no point in coming to get the ball at Tielemans’ level. There are enough players on the halfway line to do the dirty work. If, after hitting the post at the very start of the game, Trossard slipped into relative anonymity, he owes it only to himself.”
So far, Trossard has made three appearances for Arsenal this season, two in the Premier League for 62 minutes and 15 minutes in the Community Shield.
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