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[MOTD] Wrighty & Shearer on the NLD
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Great to see Ben White getting his flowers
He’s been so good. Sometimes I feel like I’m watching a different sport the way rival fans talk about him.
That's Brighton's third best centre back Ben White thank you
Nah he’s shit. Dier is clearly better.
-Garreth Southgate probably.
Not probably. That's exactly what he thinks. So dumb
It's crazy I feel legitimately crazy
Even our own fans after the first few games were talking about bringing Tomi back immediately because White wasn't up for it.
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That's a great line from Wright at the end. "Just let us get on with it"
Can you believe we have White in the form he is in and then we have Tomiyasu on the bench. From Soares starting every week, to this... wow. And who do we have to thank? That's right, Saliba.
We actually have a bench this season. At times last season when there were injuries it was like first XI or bust.
You guessed it… Frank Stallone.
Now that you look at it we were actually exposed to their break quite often and they could’ve gone 1v1 like three times
Note that all of the clips were in the first half. They didn't have a sniff the second half.
The problem with Sp*rs way of playing is that every chance they have to break has to be executed to perfection or else it breaks down immediately. They probably have a few of these "near breaks" every game which don't work out
Yeah there was a few but Saliba was able to deal with them calmly so the chances never came to anything. They wouldn't really press us when we won the ball back, so it was back to playing our game instead of them getting to have any of the possession. It was only really after the pen that we looked shaky for a bit.
It looks like no one can press Saliba when he wins it back, so why even bother. Him dribbling calmly near our box came early in the game, which I think changes some of the few pressing traps they want to trigger.
It's crazy how press resistant Partey and Saliba are. Even Xhaka looks press resistant because our style of play now gives him more options so he doesn't have to rely on skill.
3 big chances they would all put in at times is a lot for just 1 half. We still need to do a lot better at blocking their game if we want to win at the toilet bowl
think we got pretty lucky that son had a poor game with respect to that final ball. believe he played in south korea just a few days before so fatigue might have had something to do with it.
shows that we have room to improve but that’s actually exciting because we are nowhere near as good as we could be.
The link up between the Spurs front 3 has always been class. It spreads the defense, they break with pace, and create a lot of those 1v1 situations. Their counter attack combinations can expose any team, not just us imo.
I'm not too concerned about our defense (yet), but it's something we need to work on.
Son fucked up a few pretty easy passes that could’ve led to a chance as well
I said it quite a few times, I’m happy we won but not with our performance.
We absolutely dominated them for nearly the entire match. Kept possession all over the pitch ran their defence absolutely ragged. Multiple chances on top of the 3 goals we did score. Genuinely, what about that performance are you not happy with?
We must have been watching different games.
Clearly. Check Motd and also this entire post?!
How about the part where they mentioned Son had no touches in the box and Kane had two, one of which was a penalty.
Don’t need to read through comments to get an opinion, I was lucky enough to be at the game and fortunately I have eyes. Every single player in the shirt worked their ass off, and the crowd was absolutely electric. I’ll happily take 30 more of those.
Don't forget this team took 6? points off City last year doing exactly this counter. They are going to get opportunities and yes, maybe on one or two it was the result of a little arrogance on our part.
But we still dominated them and made there counters very nervy with serious hustle out of every Arsenal player on the pitch.
Room for improvement but to not be happy with the performance is asking a lot.
Liverpool will be a big test of our defence despite their form. They are masters of fast breaks and they have 4 more passers from deep in Thiago, TAA, VVD and Robertson. Spurs had none. Their forwards won’t be sitting in midfield either.
Kane had two touches in the box and one was the penalty kick.
I really don’t know how spurs fans can stomach the kind of football they play. Several times they had 8 players in the box to our 4. I mean come on. You’ve got to play at some point right? It may be working for them but they will get found out like against us
I watched them sit on the edge of their box against Forest and just couldn't understand why. I get that Conte wants draw opponents on to them but with that much talent in your front line... just seems like such a waste
I understand that against big teams sitting back is okay. But they do it every game. Against a shit Leicester, just promoted Forrest abd others. How do you explain tgat
Yeah, and they have a rough october ahead.
Frankfort, brighton, frankfort, everton, united, newcastle, sporting, bournemouth.
Clearly everton and bournemouth they should win. In the league the other opponents are far from pushovers. And i the CL they already lost to sporting in the group stages, and a loss to frankfort would cause some stress in their dressing room.
Everton isn’t even bad now. They are grinding out results. They comfortably beat Bournemouth but the rest are up in the air
The crop of defenders we have rn is absolutely ridiculous. The only reason it isn't a talking point people are bringing up is because they are defenders. When you talk about a crop of players in a position - Liverpool's forwards, city's midfield etc. - our backline should 100% be mentioned
maybe because we still ship goals.
And most of the time in pretty stupid fashion so of course no one's going to praise them too much lol
Summary: Wrighty and Shearer discuss the match with a spotlight on Ben White’s positioning and movement and what it brings to our game, as well as how poor Spurs were in the final third.
I had been paying so much attention to us when watching the match that I didn't even think about spurs' poor passing into our area. But yeah, it was thankfully terrible. Son was poor yesterday. Maybe the venue and the event messed with his (and other spuds') head.
White and Saliba were both phenomenal yesterday. Gabriel looked a bit rattled and lacked some composure. Zinchenko was very helpful in building out of the back and pushing up, but he was a bit slow coming back to cover their counters. But he's a smart, talented guy, so he will learn and adapt from that.
I really hope Arteta and the coaches can get Tierney playing more comfortably in an inverted fullback role. He had the ability. I think it's just a case of him adjusting his mindset a bit.
Before they showed the highlights Wrighty was already grinning and the presenter told him "no spoilers" 😅
Love wrightys use of marvel details every now and then
nick fury of our ship
These are annotated highlights, not exactly analysis.
God I love wrighty. And I’m an American who really got into the arsenal about five years ago. So I don’t even have the privilege of experiencing him as a player.
Shit we were exposed quite a lot.
Some really good tactical breakdown compared summer British announcers in the USA making a living saying, 'they should have pushed in the middle....push the middle, too much space. And no desire. '