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Martin Ødegaard leads the Norway squad and thousands of fans in the iconic Viking Row after securing their place in the World Cup knockout stages. 👏🚣🇳🇴
Football is about moments like these.
🚨📊| THE STAT THAT DEFINES ARSENAL'S TITLE-WINNING SEASON.🏆
Across 61 matches in all competitions, Arsenal have been behind for just 403 minutes.
That's it.
To put that into perspective, the Gunners have played 5,490 minutes of football this season and spent only 7.3% of that time trailing.
Even more astonishing?
▫️ Arsenal have trailed by 2+ goals for just 26 minutes ALL SEASON.
Those 26 minutes came in the Carabao Cup Final.
Not in the Premier League.
Not in the Champions League.
Not across a gruelling 61-game campaign.
Just 26 minutes.
In the Premier League, Arsenal have spent only 8.6% of match time behind on the scoreboard, the second-best record in the division.
This is what elite control looks like.
While other teams rely on comebacks, chaos and moments of magic, Arsenal's dominance starts much earlier:
🔸 Rarely fall behind
🔸 Rarely lose control of games
🔸 Relentless defensive structure
🔸Elite game management
🔸 Consistent for 90 minutes
The biggest compliment you can give Mikel Arteta's Arsenal isn't that they win.
It's that they almost never allow opponents to dictate terms.
For years, critics said Arsenal lacked mentality.
Now they're one of the hardest teams in Europe to put behind, let alone beat.
This isn't luck.
This is coaching.
This is structure.
This is control.
This is a champion's mentality. 🏆
Mark your calendar 🗓️
We are delighted to announce that we will come together with our supporters and community for a special parade, starting from 2pm on Sunday 31 May 👇
This was something else! The Emirates was rocking like never before
Spoiler altert: if you want to keep winning at this level, that is how the stadium has to ALWAYS sound
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Cesc Fabregas talking about the importance of game intelligence and personality over and above systems…
Both game intelligence and personality are constantly mediating three mental skills (and are mediated by these three mental skills):
1. Attention - influenced by game intelligence because you tend to pay attention to what you know. Influencing game intelligence because you become more intelligent as a result of what you’ve paid attention to
2. Activation - mental energy - if you’re not alert to the ever-changing cues in your environment you cannot play intelligently - ready to anticipate and ready to make quick, accurate decisions
3. Action-execution - approach behaviour vs avoidant behaviour - when coaches talk about ‘personality’ and ‘character’ they’re largely talking about the ability to play with energy-forward approach behaviour under pressure (purposefully, positively, proactively)