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He’s obsessed with the ball.
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A tactical issue with the ball. I imagine 90% of the work at Arsenal is without the ball: how to foul, how to con the ref, how to cry when something gets given against you are probably the core of squad training.
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Arseteta learned the shithousery of Pep without any tactical nous.
Maybe I should wait until they are out of the CL before I make fun of them…
But
Imagine being in the semi final of the CL and your fans come up with this
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And as a premier league winning manager, he would know…oh!..
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They don’t seem to have much experience of being in the semi’s of the CL.
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Liked you say, it’s half time. Way too early to point and laugh.
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And the 10% with the ball is how to cheat at corners and free kicks.
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They could spawn a 0-1 in Paris like we did and win it on pens. The chances of that happening though must be slight. The more likely scenario is Paris going for the jugular from the off with their brilliant home support behind them , Arsenal conceding early and the tie being effectively over before half-time.
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Lewis-Skelly is a DM to be fair to him. Arteta is just one of these managers who seems to think anyone can be a FB.
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Who knew jonjo supported arsenal ?
One of my core attitudes is I prefer it when teams who approach the game in a brave way are rewarded by winning things. Long before I understood who Klopp the man was, this was what attracted me to his Dortmund team. In that regard, one of the things that has most soured me on this Arsenal side is how they built themselves up with this sort of football, only to become increasingly conservative and safe in an attempt to get over the line and win things. Yesterday was the first time in a long while, probably over a year, that I have seen then face up to a quality team who they know uses the ball very well, and try to get in their face, disrupt their possession and dictate the game with pressure in the opposition half. After a shaky start they actually fared pretty well and did a much better job of disrupting PSG than we did in that first game. Yet PSG still could have easily come away with 4. That is a really tough thing for a team to take on the chin and does not bode well for going back to Paris.
I think beyond this being a semi final and a milestone moment for the club, this is thing a potentially defining moment for Arteta in how he responds to that - what does he have the confidence to ask his team to do, how clear in his thinking will he be in that ask, will it be aligned with the strengths of the players he brought together to play a certain brand of football and has increasingly asked them to do something else. It is the sort of fork in the road that can cause an era to start to come to an end.
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I was surprised to hear on one of Adam Clery’s videos that Kirkez started out as a 10.
Usually i think of players like Carra, midfielders like Marsh, or wingers being moved into that role.
Trent was also a midfielder before he broke through and ended up a full back.
Myles is doing pretty well in this role, also when coming infield to combine. Obviously Tuchel also likes that, so it’s not only Arteta and Arsenal.
We’ll see what the future holds for him.
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