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GOOD LUCK preparing to play against Arsenal next season. It'll be a guessing game.
If you press, which fullback will invert, and which
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will drop deep? If you go man-to-man, they can play long to Havertz & can create artificial transitions.
If you sit deep, pff. No chance...
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Michael Carrick has taken Middlesbrough from 22nd to 3rd in just 14 games as manager at the club.
I’m unsure it’s possible to comprehend how special that is, especially when considering his style represents that of the elites (4-2-4 ➡️ 3-2-5 in possession, 4-4-1-1 off the ball).
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Saka is dragging this Arsenal team towards the title.
He needs more help.
Forget world class talk, he’s elite. Up there with the very best in the world.
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Forget the narrative that United 'counter-attacked' their way to a win against Arsenal. That's a disservice to Erik ten Hag's *ELITE* positional play. The occupation of key spaces, the compactness in midfield, overload-underload dynamics.. it's all there 👇
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Mikel Arteta's Arsenal combine like City and counterpress like peak Liverpool.
The structure enables short passing distances as each zone is occupied, irrespective of what player is in it, and that enables reliable combination play AND compactness!
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Mate, the culture at Arsenal is off the charts.
Incredible scenes for Havertz.
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Roberto De Zerbi’s Brighton started the game off against Wolves’ man-to-man press like this…
🤯
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You'd swear Declan Rice captained this Arsenal team for the last 5 years yet it's his second game & he doesn't even have the armband.
Rodri is truly elite, we all know that, but Declan Rice is elite on AND off the ball whilst being a leader of men who's never injured.
The best.
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Arteta deserves so much praise for his second half tactics.
He went man-to-man against City's 2-3-5 and reacted optimally to City's subs. Oh, & ALL of his subs combined to score the winner!!
Pep was equally as good, though. The margins are so, so fine. Either team could've won.
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Manchester United was a circus up until very recently, but now it's a footballing institution again, and that's down to one man.
Erik ten Hag has removed the noise surrounding the club by implementing a truly *ELITE* style of play.
It's beautiful 👇🔴⚪️
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Erik ten Hag's produced a tactical masterclass last night.
He analysed the strengths & weaknesses of both teams & concluded that where United are weak (the build-up) is where Liverpool are strong (pressing high), so he removed that factor from the game 👇
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Mikel Arteta produced a tactical masterclass yesterday.
He started Zinchenko despite the fact that he was just back from injury, & it overloaded Chelsea’s press. Not only that but it also made Arsenal ultra compact in the press. It enabled TOTAL control 👇
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Rasmus Højlund is a mix between Erling Haaland and Harry Kane. His potential is frightening.
Not only that, but he is also a PERFECT fit for Manchester United & ten Hag's system.
Below, in an in-depth thread, I break down why Højlund will prove to be worth every penny.
THREAD!
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Let me let you in on a little secret - Mikel Arteta's Arsenal did NOT go to the Etihad to sit back behind the ball. That was not the plan.
City simply forced them back, but Arsenal are one of the few teams who can excel when plan A fails.
They are ELITE defensively.
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Martin Ødegaard is an ELITE player is his new all-encompassing role.
In the
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, he had natural limitations that prevented him from reaching the likes of KDB. He's a different profile now, more like Bernardo Silva.
Somehow, Arteta's Arsenal are going to get better..
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I write this with a heavy heart:
I was appointed as the 'Lead First Team Analyst' for a club in the EFL. I leave Ireland tomorrow.
I have gone through a lot to get to this stage, but dreams come true if you work hard enough despite life being tough 💯
Thank you so, so much ❤️
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Havertz offers a solution in the biggest games to play over teams who press with relentless aggression.
We saw that today against Konaté and van Dijk.
It's time to stop making a mockery of the fact that Arsenal signed him for specific circumstances & embrace his useful profile.
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Arsenal are a special team. That's clear. However, the structure in which they operate in doesn't half make the game easier for the players.
The players have the skill level, but Mikel Arteta's system consistently outwits the opposition.
It's *ELITE*.
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Arsenal played Champaign football today in Arteta's new 3-1-6.
Tactically, they outclassed Nottingham Forest. Don't let xG without context or a nervy ending make you think otherwise for a single second.
Below, in an in-depth thread, I assess their performance & future.
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I'm running out of superlatives for Mikel Arteta.
The manner in which he has rebuilt Arsenal Football Club is often beyond comprehension.
Below, in this analytical thread, I break down how Mikel Arteta has carried out one of the most special jobs in modern history..
THREAD 🔴
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Liverpool, Arsenal.. Klopp, Arteta.. Anfield, controlling chaos..
There's a LOT to consider in this game of gigantic proportions.
Most interestingly, Liverpool haven't played Arsenal with Zinchenko yet, making it the first time Liverpool have played the 'real' Arsenal.
THREAD!
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Mikel Arteta came up with an ELITE solution in the absence of Zinchenko, Timber, and Tomiyasu in the inverted fullback role against West Ham.
That solution was Ben White.
White played a role that changed Arsenal's typical dynamics, so let's explore that in detail.
THREAD! 🔴⚪️
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Mauricio Pochettino still has a lot of question marks around him, but the Brighton game showcased tactical qualities Chelsea haven't seen in a LONG TIME.
Below, in this in-depth thread, I break down how Pochettino set Chelsea up to a 🔝 standard on AND off the ball...
THREAD 🔵
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David Raya has the same physical and technical profile as Aaron Ramsdale. Very little, if anything, separates the pair in that regard.
However, they have different mental profiles - this may be why Arteta wants to bring Raya to Arsenal.
Below, I break the move down..
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Kai Havertz, on the face of it, has been underwhelming since his move to Chelsea. However, environments matter in football.
Arteta is going to utilise Havertz in a system that will allow him to *flourish*.
Below, I break down why Havertz WILL succeed at Arsenal.
MEGA-THREAD 🚨
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£43.5 million for Jurrien Timber can't be real, is it!?
The guy just turned 22, is as mature as a 30 year old veteran, can't be pressed, and can play as a centre back, traditional right back or inverted fullback to a special, special standard.
The way Arsenal operate is WILD 🤯
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Kai Havertz is awakening.
More to come, Arsenal fans. I can assure you of that.
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Bukayo Saka is one of the only players in the entire sport who excels in each area of the pitch (both wings, both half spaces, & centrally).
He can turn between the lines, beat his man in a 1v1 on the inside or outside, dictate attacks, be the main penetrator…
He does it all!!
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Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool have drastically adapted their traditional 4-3-3 by implementing a brand new 3-2-5 system with inverted fullbacks.
Trent Alexander-Arnold's inversions into midfield in particular have unlocked his own AND Liverpool's game this season 🔴⚪️
MEGA-THREAD!
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I just realised that Arteta implemented a tactic that he has never ever implemented before, until today.
Thread out ASAP!
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It seems like Pochettino will take a flexible approach to Chelsea's tactical framework.
This means that Chelsea will consistently play the same system but slightly tweak dynamics depending on their own personnel & how the opposition play. That's definitely a positive.
A thread.
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I was blown away by Kai Havertz' performance last night. He rolled all of his best attributes together & put them into one game. He has arrived.. He has officially ARRIVED 🔥
Arsenal are functional with him in midfield thanks to the genius of Arteta in how he uses Ødegaard deep.
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Chelsea are out here ruining careers.
They have the masses convinced guys like Mykhailo Mudryk and Moisés Caicedo are average footballers.
Do you realise how wild that is? How bad a process has to be for guys like that to look poor?
It's unbelievably bad. Truly unbelievable.
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Vincent Kompany has changed Burnley from a long ball team into one of the most aesthetically pleasing & *efficient* sides in the WORLD.
Not only that, but he excels in all of the areas required to be an ELITE manager. The evidence suggests he might be exactly that.
MEGA-THREAD.
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Saka is inverting to press the ball-side centre back but Trippier isn't backing him up by pressing the fullback Saka vacates. Saka looks around & put his arms up at Trippier in anger. This isn't Arsenal, Bukayo. You're managed by Southgate, not Arteta. The standards ain't as high
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Mikel Arteta's Arsenal have turned Klopp's Liverpool into a 4-4-2 mid-block team. Do you realise how wild that is?
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Gabriel Magalhães, mate. Your tactical intelligence, braveness, and physicality as a whole is elite.
Kudos to you sir.
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With the Manchester United job up for grabs, there's only one direction the club should look in, & that's towards sunny Amsterdam!
Erik ten Hag is an *ELITE* coach who's 4-3-3 showcases elements of Guardiola's on-ball style & Klopp's off-ball style. Scary good.
COLLOSAL-THREAD.
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If the reports surrounding Timber's quicker-than-expected return from injury are true, then it will make a *MASSIVE* difference to Arsenal's season!
He offers the best of Zinchenko (pass volume and technical security) and Tomiyasu (defensive qualities).
He is an elite talent 💯
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Arsenal have two players in Saliba and Rice that are theoretically the best possible iteration of a profile in their respective roles.
They excel at EVERYTHING whilst having the optimal temperament in duels & in possession to balance security with progression.
Super Saiyans 🔴
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Leandro Trossard is a technical wizard who epitomises the new era of Arsenal - technical but ruthless, & on both feet!!
In games where Arsenal dominate the ball he's useful beyond belief, from a creative AND goalscoring perspective. He guarantees 🔝 output.
3 assists, 1 half 👊
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Manchester United fans should hold their head up high.
United went to the Emirates with an injury-stricken squad which got worse mid-game but still took control away from Arsenal for large periods. Not only that, but they were an inch away from winning via Garnacho.
Patience...
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It's important to acknowledge that elite football clubs judge their players based on specific metrics.
A coach creates a system & subsequent roles within it. Data metrics are then created for those roles to assess players 'in-house'.
Havertz is a prime example of this.
THREAD!
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Van Dijk is the only defender that I've ever seen that amazes me.
We have seen many elite-level defenders in the past, but none quite like van Dijk who is impossible to press, has an elite passing range, is lightening quick & dominates all types of duels.
The Messi of defence.
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Look at the purity of that strike. *THAT* is ball-striking - toes pointed down and the ball struck with the laces.
Imagine being as physical as he is yet that technical in A) tight spaces to create separation & B) to finish with venom.
An elite talent, Gabriel Martinelli 🇧🇷🔴⚪️
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It's a great win, but what's probably even more exciting is the quality of Arteta's tactics in Timber and Zinchenko's absence.
Arsenal utilised a 3-2-5 in possession with Partey inverting into midfield alongside Declan Rice.
The dynamics & quality remain even with TWO injuries.
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I haven't seen the Emirates like this in years. Arteta is going to bring Champions League football back to this club, and let me tell you, they'll be one of the best teams in the competition, and it's all thanks to that special, special manager.
What. A. PERFORMANCE!
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Declan Rice, man.
People gave out to me for waxing lyrical about him. Do you see it now? Surely you see it now?!
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Qualitatively, the Jorginho-Rice pivot is up there with the best I have ever seen.
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Manchester City are the finished product. Arsenal are *not*.
Irrespective of how the season finishes, we have to acknowledge that, and how exciting is that for Arsenal fans!
This is only the start and they’re going toe-to-toe with Goliath…
You can’t write this stuff 🔴⚪️
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So 5th place in the Premier League gets Champions League football now?
That is HUGE.
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Evan Ferguson combines the best of Erling Haaland and Wayne Rooney and rolls them into one.
The evidence suggests the 18 year-old is set to dominate the beautiful game for decades to come.
His qualities indicate that he's a sure thing to become an *ELITE* player...
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As far as
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Below, in an-depth thread, I break down Amrabat as a player & how he fits into Erik ten Hag's system at Manchester United 🔴
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Mudryk for £40m is an absolute snippet. He dictates attacks like a creative
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, strikes through the ball on both feet like a ferocious goalscorer, & beats players in 1v1s like a dynamic winger. That's an insane profile.
Arteta & Arsenal know a player when they see one!
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Once Saliba is back on the pitch everyone is going to realise what Arsenal have been missing. It'll be instant, and other clubs will start to fear about them challenging for the title again.
His aura for his age is unmatched.
The best young defender in the world, bar none.
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Arsenal vs Manchester United was a battle for the ages.
Onana's quality in the build-up proved particularly difficult for Arteta's men to manage early on, but they controlled proceedings in the second half.
Below, I break the game down through a forensic tactical lens.
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This man is in a genre of his own.
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I am in complete & utter awe of Declan Rice since yesterday.
Every time Arsenal gave possession away, he won it back. Every time they needed control, he played a "press-killing" pass or dribbled into space.
"Best
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Saliba, Rice, Saka. World XI level quality.
All are at Arsenal, and all can still somehow improve despite already being elite.
Agh, the job Mikel Arteta has done is miraculous, truly miraculous.
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You know what I find funny? How David Raya is no longer a talking point.
It is almost as if the entire reason he was signed was to enable Arsenal to control games with the ball, & to prevent his team from conceding so many shots.
Analysis often ignores non-events. It shouldn't.
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Fabio Vieira strikes through the ball to an elite standard but also has incredible close control at a low centre of gravity.
He can dribble out of a corner & pluck the ball out of the sky yet the ball flies off his boot when striking through it.
Be patient with him..
A thread.
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Erik ten Hag is an *ELITE* manager. You name the facet of management, and he's elite at it, and there's no doubt about that.
Below, in this in-depth thread, I break down why Manchester United are on their way to be the next elite positional play team in world football.
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There's so much praise for Arsenal's individuals like Jesus, Martinelli, Saliba, etc, etc, but Mikel Arteta is the one who has cultivated this squad from a complete and utter mess to the most exciting project in world football from a tactical, psychological and qualitative POV.
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Next season hasn't even started and Arsenal are already a FAR better team than last season, and that takes some doing considering how special they were..
They can thank Mikel Arteta for that.. Arsenal are more tactically versatile which has UNBELIEVABLE implications!
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This is why Arteta and Arsenal sighed Havertz.
I was laughed at for saying they spent £65m on a guy to enable them to play *over* man-to-man presses (Brighton + City, for example), but here we are.
It’s exactly the approach Arsenal used yesterday.
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Arsenal dominated that match from start to finish.
Fans and pundits were a little apprehensive throughout the game because they took a while to get the opener, but if the Martinelli goal stood the narrative would have been entirely different..
Next time, be patient.
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Another game, another tactical spanner thrown into the works by Mikel Arteta and Arsenal.
They are the most tactically diverse team in the world right now alongside Manchester City.
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Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen are one of the most complete tactical teams in the SPORT!
Leverkusen are unbeaten, have won 12 out of 13 games, average more than 3 goals scored per game & concede less than a goal a game!
Below, I break down their ENTIRE tactical system!
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I write for a living but I don't have the vocabulary to describe how highly I think of William Saliba.
I'm sorry, guys. He makes me speechless.
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Liverpool vs Arsenal lived up to the hype. It was an EXTREMELY high quality game of football..
Below, in an in-depth thread, I break down:
- Arteta's new system,
- Ødegaard's Bernardo Silva-esque role,
- The tactical battle,
- and Liverpool's performance as a whole.
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Arteta's Arsenal are going to be like Pep's City in a few years. They're going to become so good that it'll be considered a near impossible task to go to the Emirates & come away with something, much like the way it is with City. They'll suffocate teams with their elite structure
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Arteta's inverted fullbacks enable Arsenal to attack in a variety of shapes whilst maintaining close proximity amongst the XI.
This makes it easy for the team to nullify transitions, circulate play, & combine in the final third.
The structure is *ELITE*.
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It doesn't matter who's on the pitch when Thomas Partey is at his best - he'll control the game on and off the ball and there's nothing anybody can do about it.
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Saliba is the PFA young player of the year already. Give that man the award. He's elite, the best centre back in the league this season. No doubt. Both him and Mikel Arteta deserve equal credit because the compact structure he plays in enables him to succeed too.
Incroyable.
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Kieran McKenna has the highest win ratio in Ipswich Town history and got the club promoted today.
Michael Carrick brought Middlesbrough from the relegation zone into the playoffs spots, and comfortably so.
Y'all thought Ole Gunnar Solskjær was a PE coach.. He cultivated this 🔴
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Arsenal are good enough in between both boxes & in their own box to win the Champions League.
They are optimally suited to managing all types of game-states.
It took Pep's City years to figure out the blueprint, but Arteta's men have it already.
Just lack a superstar attacker.
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City are unimaginably special. It is near impossible to gain an edge on them, so you have to match them.
Arteta's Arsenal have done that thanks to their manager, tactical versatility, & squad-building.
Where Arsenal have an edge is psychologically. The club is a sleeping giant.
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I call for patience with Erik ten Hag.
Manchester United's tactical display last night was their *BEST* of the season. Don't let the fact that they went down to 10 men fool you otherwise.
They were sensational with 11 men & it was ENTIRELY down to Erik ten Hag!
MEGA-THREAD! 🚨
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As it stands, Arsenal are the most difficult team to prepare to play against in the world.
Their tactical diversity is off the scale.
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This is interesting from Granit Xhaka on the differences between Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso.
If anybody knows either coach, it would be the heartbeat of both Arteta’s Arsenal and Alonso’s Leverkusen.
❤️🖤
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Arsenal need to keep Charlie Patino. Can you imagine the all-English midfield 3 of Declan Rice, Charlie Patino, and Emile Smith-Rowe?
The balance and quality is perfect. They would all excel in transition-based games but could also suffocate the opposition via technical quality.
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Saliba plays with the mind of a 39-year-old Thiago Silva at the tender age of 22.
It is for this reason why he is the perfect player, in and out of possession. He complements his physicality & technical quality with unique maturity & composure.
Gabriel is a great partner, too..
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It could be argued that Arsenal built play with 5 and a half players and attacked with 4 and a half players at times last season, largely because of Xhaka's profile.
Now Mikel Arteta wants to build with 5 AND attack with 5 (with Trossard or Havertz in the left 8).
A thread 🔴⚪
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Brother, that was the most engaging game of football I have watched in a long, long time.
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This is huge. Absolutely huge.
🔴⚪️ Jurrien Timber has been included amongst Arsenal squad for Champions League knockout stage.
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Villa, Bayern, and Wolves have all spotted the same weakness in Arsenal's high press.
It's time Mikel Arteta found a solution to give Arsenal the best possible chance of winning the Premier League title...
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