You can't play
counter attacking football against WBA at home because they will never attack in enough numbers for us to be able to.
Is that why Wenger and Arsenal played more
counter attacking football against Chelsea rather than keep possesion and press higher and higher up and eventually get caught out on a counter break?
Wenger must play
counter attacking football against stoke in order to stop them from parking the bus and should win by 3 or 4 or more goals to increase the confidence against chelsea at Stanford bridge.
These teams have good defences and often play
counter attack football against us.
Not exact matches
If they are going to play an
attacking football against Arsenal, that is good and what we want it to get an open space for our
counter attacking play.
Heres a thought: Play like Chelsea do
against big teams and purely player
counter attacking football.
we do nt have the midfielders to play that formation, only way it would work is if we played
counter attacking football, and that goes
against the quick possesion passing or (wan na be tiki taka) game the club wants to play and has bee playing since wenger took over.
I'll be the first to admit
counter attacking football and Arsenal should go together like cookies and cream but ever since the invicibles teams have refused adamantly to play high defensive lines
against us and
counters do not work if the opposition has a defensive 5 or 6 set up near the edge of their box when you finally get the ball up there.
Some may point to the fact that Chelsea only had 3 but if you assess the situation, Chelsea were never going to come out guns blazing at Arsenal, Chelsea thrive on controlling the game and
counter attacks, having a free flowing game of
attacking football is in Arsenal's best interest not Chelsea's and as such they would do everything to break up the play, seek for one off opportunities to get a goal and or get goals from set pieces and it worked like a charm
against us.
Arsene Wenger and the lads have also answered a few questions and proved wrong some doubts that were being aimed at us by the
football press, like when we changed tactics and played on the
counter attack to win a game
against a big rival way to Man City.
Except Wenger to use his same old useless tactics and lose
against mourinho's simple
counter attack football next week.
What I don't understand is the tactics,
counter attacking football works well
against sides who are comfortable on the ball and struggle to either gain width, that aren't direct enough in their
attack or have no aerial threat.
Against the big boys he pays fast
counter attacking football and shuts up shop.
We need to start of really
attacking like we did in the Liverpool game and also need to adapt to
counter attacking football like
against Real Madrid.»