Pepe LeFrits
yep, that's everything that's wrong, and pretty much aligns with what I've been saying. arteta is obsessed with the 1st phase of build up. final third patterns really are an after thought, as all the choreo goes into the first phase of pulling the opps out of position, then the final third just takes care of itself with the calibre players we have. unfortunately for arteta, he's spent 170m to make our first phase build up worse, and the knock on effects have cratered our attack completely. don't really see how this gets fixed with the personnel we have, outside of rice doing a xhaka impersonation and partey playing as a pivot
