Agree that we are very predictable with our distribution with Ode and Saka always sucked to the right and opponents can crowd that quite well. It was crying out for us to move across but we haven't yet got the set up for that it seems. Also agree that we need a counter attacking out, when we attack it's always slowed down and we miss a lot of the moments Liverpool utilised at their best to kill a team that was having a good moment and getting at them when they haven't organised.
Claudius The concentration of Odegaard, Saka and White, and even Rice and Saliba at times, draws in so many opposition players at times and we're very slow to move away from it. The space is there across the other two thirds of the park but we move it with short passes to nearest man. Arteta will have his reasons for not switching it quicker but I get frustrated when I see the space and our indifference at trying to use it quickly.
Clrnc tbf he said Arteta doesn't like diagonals if there's no advantage to it.
Which is kind of a sentence completely devoid of information because nobody likes anything unless they think there's an advantage to it.
I reckon it's breaking news to the Stevie me impersonators.
Gazza M Yeah, casts the "Scholes pass" in a certain light
Diagonal passes that are floated across are of no use.
Cross field passes that are pinged across with pace like Alonso used to are incredible
Ben White has issues dealing with tricky wingers 1v1, not the first time this has happened. Thought yesterday was one of his worst performances in recent months.
Tam I do find it annoying at times that we have men in acres of space on the opposite side of the pitch and the ball will come from Saka back to midfield and instead of moving it and stretching the defence we more often than not just pass back into the congested area and ask Saka and Odegaard to find a way through.
