Rio’s Rating? 8/10 | Declan Rice is SECOND most influential player in Premier League

The boys get back together to analyse Arsenal’s season so far as well as looking ahead to what they could achieve come the end of the campaign.They analyse the biggest strengths of Mikel Arteta's side and pose the question about what the manager’s future looks like should he fail to win the league.Rio and Joel discuss the importance of Declan Rice for both club and country and Rio names him as the second most influential player in both the Premier League and in Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup squad.Joel and Rio make their predictions for the remainder of the season and there’s two areas that they earmark for improvement - specifically from Arteta - the inclusion of youth players and allowing players to play with more risk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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