To me the fact that we have a striker in Giroud that can not make runs beyond the defence allows teams to
play a high line against us which makes our midfield struggle with space.
I expect us to play differently to the game against Villa as Pearson will surely not be stupid enough to
play a high line against us at the Emirates.
honestly who the hell is dumb enough to
play a high line against Arsenal..
playing high line against all the teams with the same attacking mentality 2: this is most important problem, unable to keep the ball and take it to final third against high pressing teams....
Opsina saved us a couple times already, we can't keep
playing that high line against their quick forwards.
Try to learn from his mistakes, and not
play a high line against man city, chelsea, and liverpool ever again!
This can cost us points when we are
playing a high line against pacy forwards.
Not exact matches
you must be kidding, maybe
against mid-table teams... Walcott is only good
against teams
play with
high defense
line....
It is hard to understand for me why he still
plays Mert
against better teams AND
plays a
high line.
When you are
playing football and you got a
high ball to control the slightest touch will push you off it for sure eguaro pushed mustafi but mustafi should have stock his leg out to bring him down or elbowed him in the face well i would have done that Arsenal were not hungry enough for the cup if they were we would have seen some blood running down of some Manchester players Arsenal need to defend in packs of wolves The first half was not to bad we should have scored though but yes no back bone no hunger and no fight What is going to happen on Thursday how are we going to
line up
against them??? I need to see Arsenal fight like man stand up like man and use their skill and agility to turn Manchester to a loosing side Well if we do nt we need to separate the real man from the phony ones period
Against Chelsea we
played a
high press,
high line with fast counters... West Ham like to kick the ball over our heads.
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.
They were
playing such a
high line like they usually so
against small teams.
Walcott should
play against pressing teams with
high defensive
line and Giroud
against deep defending teams.
if Arsene doesn't trust Gabriel then he needs to find another CB, he should stop
playing Merts
against top teams using
high -
line tactics.
4 -2-3-1 was the formation that we used when we were humiliated by Chelsea, City and Liverpool, it simply didn't work
against fast opposition when we
played such a
high line.
With Mertesacker in the side, the team will have to be very cautious to
play a
high defensive
line because as we saw
against Chelsea, one precise through ball can take the big German out of the game.
When
playing a
high line teams generally
play the offside trap esp
against a striker like Kane or Giroud.
Kelly King, who coached Vea at Milpitas, on a
play from his junior season: «We were down ready to score on the goal
line against another team and the sprint champion from the other team [Delshawn Mitchell of Wilcox
High School], we had fumbled the ball and he picked it up and was running down the sideline.
Only thing
against him is his lack of pace, which is troubling because Arsenal always
plays a
high line so he could easily get caught out.
Considering the lack of form of all Chelsea's attacking players with the exception of Willian...
Playing any form of
high line against the duo of Vardy and Mahrez is suicidal, unless you're confident of banging in a few at the other end.
Transfer window, errors and loosing possession leading to goals, counter attacks leading to goals on account of our ever increasing
high line,
playing players out of position, loosing to top six teams away, hardly wins any game
against the top six, our best players wanting out.
Mert is top quality but with him in the side Arsenal can't
play a
high line at any point in the game
against top sides... Chelsea game, Barca game seems to demonstrate this very very very clearly.
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Kolo Touré — 6.5 Prefers the deeper defensive
line as was evident
against Everton, and
against West Brom where he had a stinker
playing higher up.