Former Liverpool star Graeme Souness said Mohamed Elneny should have been sent off the field Sunday against Burnley following a foul.

Arsenal lost 1-0 to Burnley to sit fifteenth on Premier League table as they Granit Xhaka was shown the red card earlier in the second half.

After that, Elneny also committed a foul on Tarkowski in the penalty zone but behaved as if he was fouled.

“You’re setting your team up yesterday defensively. Who in his staff has thought it would be a good idea for Elneny to be a marker at a set-piece when Elneny is ignoring the ball completely and just staring at his man and pushes the guy down, he goes down pretending he’s been pushed. He should have been sent off there,” Souness told Sky Sports TV, per KingFut.

“Who has looked at the situation and thought “he could be one of our markers?”. If he does that once you don’t have him anywhere near marking a player.

“That guy’s 28 years old. Someone in his staff must have seen that and thought, “not sure about that boss, let’s put someone else there”. Someone on his staff has to go, “that’s down to me”. Did you ever play with a player who did that? I never.

“You learn at 15, 16 how to mark properly and if you’ve got half a brain it’s in your head forever. Don’t tell me that Elneny’s not marked someone in the past at a set-piece for Arsenal an shown signs that he might not be very good. 

“They could easily have gone down to nine men tonight, and in my opinion should have gone down to nine men. Someone in the coaching staff must have seen that in him and thought ‘we can’t have him anywhere near marking someone.

“That has to go back to Arsene Wenger. He signed him. Whoever signed him and worked with him for a period of time. Him or his coaches have got to say this is how you mark,”