Lacazette should question Wenger

The French striker was let well enough alone for the starting XI at the Etihad Stadium after also having been dropped for the meeting with Liverpool.

Alan Shearer has encouraged Alexandre Lacazette to stand up to Arsene Wenger after the striker was let well enough alone for the beginning line-up for Weapons store’s 3-1 misfortune to Manchester City.

The France international joined the Gunners from Lyon in the summer for a fee of around £50 million, becoming the clubs record signing. However, he has been left out from the starting XI in two of Arsenal’s greatest games of the season so far –also starting on the bench against Liverpool at Anfield as Wenger’s men lost 4-0.

Lacazette entered in the second half and scored his side’s just goal of the game, and Shearer, the former Newcastle United striker, believes he should talk with Wenger to find why he is not playing. “He left him out at Anfield and again today, against your rivals,” Shearer said on Match of the Day 2.

“You spend £50m on a striker and think he will make the difference in the big games.He has scored six Leaguegoals, more than twofold any other player in that Arsenal team. He played Alexis Sanchez today, who does not want to commit himself to the football club, what that saysto Lacazette and his teammates.