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Arsenal - Porto, Tuesday @ 20:00 UK Time.

Pepe LeFrits

Good video on the tactics of the game, Ramsdale/Raya and mentality. Worth a watch.

Burnwinter

Pepe LeFrits Good context on Saka, Rice and Øde's roles in that. Arteta gets some credit for the tactical changes too.

lorddulaarsenal

Pepe won’t like to admit it but Pepe was dogshit on our goal

lorddulaarsenal

RocktheCasbah I know it’s frightening. They need to start re-selling Lucozade shots!

RocktheCasbah

lorddulaarsenal that's so funny, I was chatting to a security guard at work today and he's been looking for some new Lucozade variation - it's blue and called berry blush or something. He thinks it might be an east London thing!

Claudius

My 5 favorite things from last night

Odegaard putting in a real captain’s performance in both quality and effort
Mikel finally giving us a team that we can rely on to keep things tight over 2 legs
Havertz being as much an ass as Porto, including shoving Concecao
Continuing to find hidden gems, notably Kiwior
Those penalties. Lauren would be proud

Big Willie

😂

banduan

This was a completely different performance than away to Porto. We were not poor and deserved to win 2-0, Ode's goal should've stood.

That was one weird ref. Let's everything go until inside the box. Good thing is we took advantage of him being like that and stuck a bit in ourselves.

Gurgen

Havertz grabbed the defender's shirt. As much as I hate that ref, it was the right call. I don't understand why Havertz fouled him because he would have knocked himself over regardless.

Clrnc

Gurgen I thought the call was more for Havertz impeding the keeper which would have been right

QuincyAbeyie

If that's a grab then Ødegaard's (?) shirt was too.

flobaba

That can't be the most effective way to skin the mid block cat though. It was basically a stalemate set up, no overloads available to exploit, with chances depending solely on a mistake from the defenders. We should be able to overcome that tactically. I hope it's something we get to work on during the 3 week break.

Claudius

flobaba it’s not just about a mid block. It’s about them also stopping the game. We play a ton of mid and low blocks. We have the deepest possession and most defensive actions in the final third of any premier league team. So we know how to operate there. It’s the constant interruptions. It made it very hard for us to get any rhythm. Even on set pieces, they would just dive. Incredible team, really

Burnwinter

That stat about the ball being in play for less than half of the 130-odd minutes of the match ...

Big Willie

Big Willie Gabriel beasting 3 guys on the wing.

Gabriel going ham. What power.

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