Anzac wrote:
Kurt Eisner wrote:
I really hope that our insistence on long balls and wide play is just out players having tunnel vision instead of Arteta coaching them to do it. All our best players thrive when we play quick pass and move football, I don't get why we're not playing to their strengths. Instead we're playing to the perceived strengths of Luiz and Xhaka.
I wonder if the idea is to try to avoid Benfica outnumbering us through the centre, but then we are missing the ball into the middle once we beat their midfield line?
If that's the case then Arteta is overthinking it. We're better than Benfica and we'll beat them if we manage to get Odegaard, ESR and Saka more into the game. That's really all there is to it and by playing around them we're doing Benfica a favour.
