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here's a link to the article. please let me know what you think and don't hesitate to repost if you resonate with the article. thank you 🙏
open.substack.com/pub/tactic…
y'all were getting way to chatty about Arteta never winning at Anfield so he locked in and gave you what you wanted. what other questions do we have?
we're not relieving any pressure because no one is putting their foot on the ball. Only Madueke is carrying. I might need to see Myles and Eze by 60 but I worry about the passiveness of the whole team dropping even further by then. Liverpool have been good. Barcola has been great
the facilitation of a good attack is very much dependent on movement. combinations. transitions. everything is off the ball. there has to be movement in relation to certain frameworks, or everything gets static. whatever attacking system it is, we must have good movers.
my mild didn't really process any of this fast enough during the game, but I was so scared when that tackle came in. my mind went to Ramsey, Diaby, Wilshere immediately. it was a bad tackle, and Dowman was right to protect himself. should've been two yellows and move on.
don't understand how it could be anyone else's fault but the players. it literally doesn't matter. whoever was on that pitch was enough to beat Fleetwood and we didn't win because we didn't apply ourselves properly and we were piss poor in front of goal. it's as simple as that.
if Ballon d'Or is so heavily based on the World Cup, then why was Merino not nominated? Spain don't win that WC without him, no? they understand nuance in some cases but don't in others? interesting.
that City loss has been coming for a long time. they have very obvious issues and credit to Emery for exploiting them to give them high quality chances. City need to get a hand on it though. if they lose another game coupled with the drama of the charges, they could fall off.
that Cherki foul rn, he had to do it cos Mazambi was running straight into Guehi Dias would've had to take Jackson and no one would be picking Alyson. Khusanov and Gvardiol were both in the final third. there's no need for Enzo to also be in the final third.
tbh I think this just tells us what Arteta values. Havertz drops deep and wide. facilitates our wide triangles. allows us access the centre better and even if we can't, we can arrive into zone 14 from wide areas because of the overloads and combinations there. it's good value.
The issue is teams will not follow you up and just stay deep. That's what many teams do against us in the EPL. They know Havertz is unable to dribble or create from deep spaces, so they can just remain deep. Forest did this expertly, but many elite midblock teams did this as well, like Villa this season.
Havertz is also not an elite runner, so even when he tries to stay high and central to run off the shoulder of the last defender, they catch him with offsides a lot this season. He's leading the league by a good margin in offsides.
we pressed well in the first phase but our M2M wasn't as good as it usually is. Bayern picked us off with runs across and behind our line and really stretched us. I think it was a good test and we will be better prepared for more games like this. we missed Saliba.