Counter attacking teams don't play the best football.
It showed were the team needs improvement — Defending set pieces / defending
counter attacking teams / pressing uptop / a battler in midfield / some soughting out on the left wing / and the need to play OG as a supper sub.
Now that Arsenal are having to do without Francis Coquelin to protect that back four it seems to me that Mertesacker's lack of pace is even more of a problem, especially against
counter attacking teams.
He showed them all the way to create fast strong exciting
counter attacking teams while he himself has been influenced by Barcelona..
A pairing of Xhaka and Matic would make it interesting against
counter attacking teams.
Chambers must be played against quicker
counter attacking teams and this is why he is an upgrade because it will prevent sweaty teams from running riot to an extent.
Arsenal's attack has been ineffective for most of the season so - far, slow and useless horizontal passing, no penetrating runs from attackers, and our defenders push wayyy to high up the pitch to try to facilitate the attack leaving acres of space for
counter attacking teams to exploit.
He's more suited to
counter attacking teams which Arsenal isn't.
Personally, and it could get me a lot of thumbs down, against fast
counter attacking teams, like Liverpool, I would prefer to see Callum Chambers or someone of the same speed, rather than Mert at CB.
They aren't attractive in their football and as
a counter attacking team they don't possess much speed either.
Now we just pass side to side slowly with no intent even tho we have an amazing
counter attacking team with pace which would be more effective rather them this crap last 3seasons
He played in
a counter attacking team, we are different.
I understand its not all about running and part of me seems to think his attributes are better suited to
a counter attacking team, but watching santi play it seems like he can provide the passes mesut can and offers more defensively.
You canot make suck an error in
a counter attacking team like Liverpool.
We look a better
counter attacking team yet Wenger stil makes us play this slow lethargic side to side passing football
I have already said that any good
counter attacking team can easily score goals against us.
Big Sam Allardyce has perfected his game plan to collect a valuable 1 point from this game tomorrow as the Gunners will face one of the Pack The Bus and
Counter Attack Teams to steal a point.
back during autumn it looked like we were becoming a more
counter attacking team as well, but that faded away during christmas and new years and now we're back to that game style of «Their defense's ability to stay sharp throughout the game and their ability to counter in a goal determines the outcome of this game» which we could just nickname Wengerball.
how can you start martsaker over Gabriel for
a counter attacking team?
Tbh I do nt tink ozil is cut out for pl nor is he suited to arsenal's style on possesion play (he devasting in
a counter attacking team).
He would thrive in
a counter attacking team though
Iwobi has shown he has both and is the same age as alex when he came, unless alex can improve his decision making he won't fit into our style of play (which I concede is useless atm and outdated) but he could do really well for
a counter attacking team I think.
Its only that we haven't been exposed to solid and
counter attacking team.
Football is a team sport, if we defend very well away from home, we are a good
counter attacking team, we will always scoren enough with all these striker talk pls..
this season worst
counter attacking team in the league.
I love that we are not
a counter attacking team that lets the otherteam pass the ball around and wait for the one or two chances a game.
When you start a 19 yr old kid who has never played for the 1st team before at the most intimidating atmosphere in all of Europe against the best
counter attacking team in Europe, when our whole team is embarrassingly out of form, what do you expect to happen?
Swansea are a solid unit and a very good
counter attacking team, that's there not so secret formula.
If wellback starts, we can be a dangerous
counter attacking team.
what a F @ (king boring park the bus and
counter attack team Utd are.
ST — Caleb Ekuban — The debate rages on about Caleb Ekuban but
a counter attacking team doesn't play with Lasogga, you use the pace of Ekuban and you release him as early as you can.
He's a great asset to have whether it be as part of
a counter attacking team or as part of a team that's having to break down a compact deep line
For me, it's evident that Inter are better as
a counter attacking team with an emphasis on counterpressing.
Not exact matches
I hate to agree with you but LCFC could very well be an ideal
team for Theo, good
counter attacking football and if Theo finds his form in a system like that...
It is the
counter attack where many many
teams have killed us, Coq allowed us to less prone to
counter attack.
Time and again we fail with our
counter attack styles against bif
teams.
The closest we looked to finding our rhythm was the match against watford and for that to happen a
team have to be playing together in real matches, hull will be looking to
counter attack from their park bus situation and will hope to get some free kicks around our box.
You can blame Wenger for this one, he needs to change it, press
teams hard in the first and middle third, draw them out and
counter attack at speed like we used to.
Too many players - Cazorla / Podolski, Wilshere, Ozil just jog back when opposition
teams counter attack!
All this means that Arsenal can afford to be a bit more adventurous than we would against a side that was hurting
teams regularly on the
counter attack.
The Englishman can make runs down the flanks, catch on to quick through balls and would be better suited to play on the
counter attack, which we may have to do against a
team like Manchester City.
With Giroud against better
teams we don't really have the option to play on the
counter attack which has become part of the modern game.
i bet he can do better in a defensive style
team that depends on
counter attacks....
I don't see them defending and
counter attacking like Ahtletico do against the big
teams either.
(Also I have noticed we are not good in
counter attacks very much, which I guess will improve with return of Walcott and inclusion of Podolski / Campbell / Chamberlain and Sanchez has already fitted in our
team because of this type of play).
The only
team that Arsenal ever sat back against on if not on regular basis is Man city, expect wenger to employ Welbek up front, use long balls,
attack from minute one, score one or two, then sit to start using
counter.
And once again, this DMF myth of a player will do fck all for this
team... You lot think just one big player in the DM position will change a thing when we have all our
attacking players being so careless when they
attack, they are the laziest bunch ever to rush back and stop
counter attacks..
For example, against Pullis type
teams we may want Ramsey who will make the penetrating late runs into the box against a
team that sits back and defends, we may want to start with Ramsey against a
team like Chelsea to get the 1st goal but then Coquelin coming on to sit and defend while relying on long passes from Xhaka and the threat from our tank Seo and Bellerin / Ox... More
counter attacking.
Liv are a top
team and I wouldn't want to hand most of the
counter attacking initiative to them.
I see this working against bigger
teams with Chamberlain, Alexis and Walcott in the front three
attacking positions, that way we can catch them on the
counter.