Full-backs are becoming more like midfielders with each passing day.
Nowadays, being able to defend just isn’t enough. The modern-day right-back has to have the dribbling ability of a winger and the passing ability of a number eight. Dani Alves, and now Trent Alexander-Arnold, have simply upped the standards.
Arsenal have had a mixed record when it comes to right-backs in recent years. Summer signing Takehiro Tomiyasu has earned rave reviews, to the extent that he’s one of the first names on the teamsheet, but the quality below him is shoddy at best.
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