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[jed hill @espressodegaard]

🧵🧵I wrote about Arsenal’s OOP approach against Man City and in particular the use of horizontal jumps, shadows and abandoning double coverage.
I also talk about ‘speed advantages’, controlling uncertainty and Back to the Future. Enjoy 🚀🎡
Full article: https://t.co/c2fVhQ9i4p

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

@bastiandotnet Felt like Merino marked himself there

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Feels a long time ago now but I do think there were some interesting things happening before the red card

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Without Saka and Ø we have to use risky central passes to create our final 3rd advantages. We have been very vertical in our passing so far

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Without Saka and Ø we have to use risky central passes to create our final 3rd advantages. We have been very vertical in our passing so far

[Pot Shot @potshotpod]

💥 NEW JON POD💥

#97: Sending Offs, Set Pieces & Slavoj Žižek: The Story of Arsenal’s Season So Far (feat. Jon Mackenzie)

🎙️: @setpiecesicko @LxWrites1 @Jon_Mackenzie

🔴 Is this Arsenal sustainable?
🔵 Arteta’s Pragmatism
🟡 What’s the Cap?

Listen 👉 https://t.co/kJ5RZOFc37

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Nwaneri for jesus when

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Pity for Martinelli to not get to reap the benefits of a Jorginho and Calafiori behind him. Feels like the type of game he could really do well in, given Southampton’s style.

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

See Porto’s third goal

[Jon Mackenzie @Jon_Mackenzie]

But the problem is that this shape can be manipulated quite easily.

If the two central players in the front four are baited forward, space opens out in the midfield that can be exploited if the central midfielders behind them are unable to cover it in time.

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

…when we press. However, with PSG’s press, our free man was almost always the next pass (usually CB-> CB) This allowed us to transfer our free man across lines, as PSG jumped.

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Most HP teams will always be a man down in the press (double coverage of #9). AFC don’t always jump m2m so we are often in this situation. The difference between our press and the PSG one for example is that the opposition free man is always the furthest player from the ball…

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

@potshotpod What to make of Calafiori positioning himself in the line above Rice in build up, as oppose to the other way round? What is the intuition for this wrt to their skillsets? Baiting the psg widemen to find our deep +1 (usually Timber/Trossard) dynamically (discuss)

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

@alexfrco @watmanAFC Will say that the overlaps and rhs underlaps of Havertz has been a welcome new type of threat. Not scored this way yet but have created a few good cutback opportunities this way

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Scoring set pieces is the 24/25 version of the 15/16 Özil assists

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

City vs Arsenal and Utd vs Spurs both forced into a subdued state before halftime by the referee in the space of a week…this is not good

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

🗣 "[Michael Oliver] doesn't want to have a negative impact on the game by overreacting."

PGMOL chief Howard Webb admits Manchester City's Mateo Kovačić was "extremely fortunate" not to be sent off against Arsenal 🟥

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Rice and Calafiori ( if he starts🤞) will be so important tomorrow, they can do damage to a lone Rodri or Rodri-Lewis in transition

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

2/2

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

1/2 Rice ↔️ Saka in the interior

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

@the_ayooluwa I think our feelings (and our voices) are a blur of places and authors and circumstances. Sentences in particular cannot help but take the shape of what we read especially if we write soon after reading.

[jed hill @espressodegaard]

Put Kai in the pivot and swap Jesus for Jorginho