Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted that he will take responsibility for Konstantinos Mavropanos’ poor performance against Leicester on Wednesday.
The centre-back was sent off 15 minutes into the game and the outgoing manager admits that he should never have picked the 20-year-old Greek.
Arsenal were already a goal down when he was dismissed, and Claude Puel’s side went on to win 3-1 at the King Power Stadium.
The veteran Frenchman has confessed that he will shoulder the blame for Mavropanos’ dismissal.
“I don’t think he had recovered,” he said. “He was a bit surprised by the pace of the game at the start, because he had not completely recovered.