I preferred playing for Arsenal than Guardiola's Barcelona - Thierry Henry

Former French international, Thierry Henry has said that football was much easier at Arsenal than it was under Pep Guardiola at Barcelona.

Henry who is Arsenal's highest goals scorer with 175 was also part of the invisible squad that held an unbeaten run in 2003/2004.

He later made a move to Barcelona where he won the UEFA Champions League by beating Manchester United in the final.

He told Sergio Aguero on PUMA's Instagram live chat: “At Arsenal I could go wherever I wanted, like when you played with Diego Forlan [at Atletico Madrid].

“It was much easier for me at Arsenal because I had either [Dennis] Bergkamp or Kanu.

“I went to Barcelona, a different type of game, a different type of style to relearn how to play the game because at Arsenal, Dennis was there, Kanu was there and I could move everywhere up front, come in the middle, get the ball, go on the right and the left.

“Then suddenly you arrive at Barcelona and I had [Frank] Rijkaard asking me to stay on the left and then when Pep arrived.

“Pep is an amazing coach first and foremost but he’s very demanding, very intense and it’s almost like you play chess with him.

“You always want to be a step ahead of what you’re doing. To do that you have to stay in your position in order to make the pitch as big as possible for the midfielders to operate what they need to operate.

“And you need to make fake runs to take the backline away, to create space for the No.10 on your side because we were playing with one holding midfielder and two No.10s so I always had to make runs in behind to make sure that Andres [Iniesta] was going to get the ball and if you don’t you kill the space. And then I started to understand space, move in the space.

“It was a different type of game and then once I did adjust and adapt then in 2009 we went on the year of winning everything possible.

“It was an amazing time but as you know, Arsenal is in my heart.”