Indeed, while speaking on his YouTube channel after the game, Watts noted (5:44): “Tomiyasu had a shocker in the first half. He was really poor, looked well off it.
“He was replaced at halftime, not surprisingly, because he had a really poor afternoon. Tomiyasu, I mark him three out of 10.”
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What went wrong for Tomiyasu against Bournemouth?
It seems as though Watts isn’t alone in thinking the right-back was pretty poor as manager Arteta opted to bring Tomiyasu off after 45 minutes.
Incidentally, his replacement Ben White then provided the second Arsenal goal with a fine volleyed finish and so proved himself to be much more useful to the team on the day.
As per SofaScore, Tomiyasu was the joint-worst outfield player for the Gunners and he finished the game having lost the ball 13 times, failing to find a teammate with three attempted crosses, and also being inaccurate with one attempted long ball.
Seeing as that was just his sixth league start of the season, the Japan international will no doubt be disappointed to have performed so poorly and played no part in the second-half comeback.
