There are a number of factors that appear to have influenced this untimely downfall and it's most likely due to increasing competition from European counterparts and the rise in the quality and standards of other Euro - based teams, particularly in the
style of possession football even the supposed «weaker» teams are now adopting.
It was merely a joke, and even though he criticised our consistency he slated United for their
obsession of possession football, and City for their poor defensive record.
Wenger seems like those prim and proper kind of coach who's only thinking about playing his nice
game of possession football and couldn't care less about any little fanciful tricks up his sleeves.
The computer analysis also shows that Dunga played a key role in the
kind of possession football practised by Brazil, characterised by passing between groups of two or three players.
This would prove rather detrimental for a team that plays Arsenal's style
of possession football.