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Brentford at home today @ 15 GMT - Tortellini with pesto

Burnwinter

I think it's just that when we face a team parking the bus, and doing it narrow, we mostly abandon the centre and develop everything down the flanks.

Anzac

Burnwinter wrote:
I think it's just that when we face a team parking the bus, and doing it narrow, we mostly abandon the centre and develop everything down the flanks.

Not to forget that we're nominally playing a 433 when we're on the ball with Xhaka also going forward. We now have a natural balance on each flank to cover our 5 channels in attack, whereas previously we saw ESR coming inside off the flank and KT overlap.

Anzac

https://gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2022/02/20/the-accidental-benefit-or-was-it-of-arteta-challenging-saka-and-esr-to-score-more/

https://dailycannon.com/2022/02/tactics-arsenal-brentford/

Asterix

Burnwinter wrote:
I think it's just that when we face a team parking the bus, and doing it narrow, we mostly abandon the centre and develop everything down the flanks.

Yep that makes sense, it was just noticeable that it was all on Saka's side, and none on Smith Rowe's side. Just a curiosity - you have to think it's coached when it's that obvious.

Unless the video was selective and missed out a whole bunch of other touches - that's quite possible too I guess.

Burnwinter

I've been enjoying the Daily Cannon guy Stephen Bradley's tactics vids, he's a quirky fella but likeable and insightful.

The previous instance about the Molineux match, Bradley talks about what he interprets as Arteta's instructions regarding operating on the flanks against two rows of defenders who are playing very narrow.

It is a bit interesting that it was all down the right, as that hasn't always been the case eg when we've been very Tierney-centric. Maybe the objective there is to focus on the weaker fullback, or to keep the left side more open given Smith-Rowe was lining up in front of Tierney over that way.

I was really happy with our control against Brentford, we absolutely choked them, even if the missing piece about how to deliver a final ball into the penalty area to a forward who can actually do something with it is not present for us currently.

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