[Gossip Board] Groves Hits Back At Neville: His Comments Were Completely Perfunctory And Ben White Didn’t Back Down

Hupu News, May 13, according to talkSPORT, Arsenal star Perry Groves fiercely hit back at Gary Neville's criticism of Ben White's injury on the "Inside Gooners" podcast. Neville earlier accused White of being too weak in the fight and causing his own injury during a live broadcast on Sky Sports, but Groves felt that this statement was baseless.

Neville: White's tackle was too soft

In the 28th minute, Ben White and Somerville were competing for a loose ball, and their knees collided. Neville said in the Sky Sports commentary that Ben White just hung his leg there, which is terrible for a right back. He's up against Somerville, and he has to be tougher than that. His injury this time could have been completely avoided. If he had completed that action with a truly solid sense of interception when he went up, this kind of thing would never have happened. He was asking for trouble by stretching his legs out in a particularly weak way.

Groves: He didn't back down at all.

Groves couldn't agree with this at all. He said, "This is purely a lazy comment, and it is exactly the kind of perfunctory commentator's behavior. The reason is that – White didn't choose to back down during that scramble. It was a 1-in-2 chance of a ball confrontation. First, Rice was intercepted by Somerville, and then the ball bounced out. If you look at the entire process, you will find that the two of them rushed towards the ball at the same time. What actually happened was that – White had already extended his foot to reach the ball in an interceptive tackle motion, and the side of his foot had already reached the interception, so at that moment his knee joint was brought to the outside." And Somerville's knee happened to hit the inside of his knee, and your joint was reversely overstretched in that way, and the ligament was torn to that extent at that moment.

Therefore, I think this is just an extremely superficial comment, and Neville seems to be trying to capitalize on Ben White's reputation for not liking football. I thought it was sloppy and arbitrary, given that 100% he never got away from that tackle. Not at all.

Host Bright also added that it happens every day that players get injured in the fierce 50-50 fight. Especially for a player who had World Cup dreams and was subjected to such cynicism when he fell, I think this statement is extremely strange. White has been determined to have suffered medial collateral ligament damage and will miss all competitions in the back this season. His prospects for the World Cup are also cast a shadow.