Former Arsenal players Stewart Robson and Paul Mariner have said that ill-discipline from Arsenal midfielder Matteo Guendouzi will see him pick up many more cards in the future.
The youngster has become an important part of Unai Emery's team since his arrival last summer, playing in all 10 Premier League games so far this season.
However, both Robson and Mariner, who played for the Gunners in the 1980s, say that the midfielder needs to channel his aggression in a better way.
"[Arsenal’s discipline is] an issue,” Robson said on ESPN FC.
"If you’re aggressive and you tackle, I quite like players that want to get stuck in and fight for the cause, but what you can’t be is ill-disciplined, you can’t keep getting yellow cards.
"Guendouzi is probably the greatest player at Arsenal at the moment of being ill-disciplined.
"He wants to fight with the opposition, he wants to fight with the referee, he makes poor challenges.
"I think he’s going to be an outstanding player but he’s getting it wrong, he’s not being aggressive in the right manner, he’s actually giving away too many yellow cards, he’s going to get himself sent off more often than not and it tells everybody that’s watching that this club at the moment are ill-disciplined."
former striker Mariner agreed with Robson, using the rugby tackle style challenge on Wilfried Zaha during the 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace last week as an example, while also aiming a slight dig at Unai Emery.
"Let’s go back to what Robbo said there about Guendouzi getting yellow cards,” he said.
"We’ve coached for a long, long time - we used to drum into our players ‘when you’re in the attack, when you have possession of the ball, are you in a good position if it breaks down?’.
"Now, that’s coaching - there’s no coaching going on [at Arsenal] because if Guendouzi and Granit Xhaka are in such poor positions when they’re in possession for when that beak comes, we saw the position that Guendouzi had against Wilfried Zaha.
"I mean that was a red card, he’s horse-collared him because he’s in the wrong position.
"He’s not thinking ‘What if?’ and that’s all about coaching."
