Keown criticises Saka and Arsenal's decision-making as 'hugely disappointing'

Martin Keown has criticised Bukayo Saka and his Arsenal team-mates for lacking knowhow in crucial moments after their Champions League exit.

Arsenal lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena and failed to trouble the German champions as they crashed out of the quarter-finals 3-2 on aggregate.

They managed just eight shots on goal and failed to flaunt their usual flair. While things started encouragingly, they were disappointing in the second half.

In the 95th minute, Saka passed a free kick quickly to Ben White instead of shooting or crossing into the box, before only hitting the first man from the subsequent corner.

'It was very disappointing, kind of summed up at the end there when Saka for some reason taking a free kick [short] when there was the opportunity to really test the goalkeeper,' Keown told TNT Sports.

'You just saw that little bit of lack of experience. There needs to be more urgency in the closing exchanges. Saka made that decision in the moment.

'I admire that as well. But I think he might have been better taking that delivery from the free kick and it might have been a wonder goal.

‘You wanted to see the ball going in the box. That urgency wasn’t there and I think that’s a lack of experience, of being in those major games, and knowing what to do in those critical moments.

'No real urgency in those closing stages. Hugely disappointing. Just feel as though we didn’t really lay a glove on them in this second tie. It was there if we wanted it, as Owen said, and Bayern came out with the resolve, direct, and posed much more of a threat than Arsenal did. Look at that, sums it up doesn’t it, the last action of the game.

'I think the cautiousness of the game really helped Bayern to sort of, “okay, let’s change gear