Kieran Tierney gives Mikel Arteta the green light to create dream £41.2m Arsenal full-back duo

Kieran Tierney’s domination in the Premier League also highlights why Arsenal need to sign Tariq Lamptey to create a dream full-back duo. The Gunners will need a right-back in the summer and the Englishman would be the perfect acquisition.

Only three full-backs have made more than 20 Premier League appearances this season and been dribbled past fewer than 10 times. Tierney tops the list having only been dribbled past once, while Lamptey is in second place, as the youngster has only been dribbled past nine times.

The Gunners will be in need of a right-back in the summer transfer window, and Lamptey would certainly be a good signing. The statistics of the youngster and Tierney highlight that Arsenal can follow Liverpool’s model of having dominant full-backs in defence and attack.

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Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson have arguably been the most crucial players in a team that has won the Premier League and the Champions League in the last three years under Klopp. They are the focal point of Liverpool’s build-up play and are much less threatening when they are absent from the side.

Arsenal have their own version of Robertson in left-back Kieran Tierney, a player with similar traits who likes to bomb forward. However, whilst Tierney certainly goes a long way in helping Arsenal formulate the Liverpool full-back model, it is a different story for the right-back position where Arsenal need to provide competition for Takehiro Tomiyasu with a more attacking-minded full-back.

According to the Daily Mirror, the Gunners and the Manchester side were interested in signing Lamptey in the January transfer window. And it is a