In a game where patience and
possession football works better Napoli tear up the rulebook and do things their own way.
Not exact matches
We know how important the first goal if
football is, especially if a creative,
possession oriented team like Arsenal are playing a well organised, hard
working and defensive team like Hull.
Talking Points Now, let us not be delusional of the fact that Arsenal play
possession based
football, which, some days, does
work against you.
Deny it all you want but since Fabregas left Arsenal our frre flowing
football has really declined.It feels like am the only one who thinks we lack real penetration and ideas in the final third of opponents.Also in 14/15 sesson I lost count of our misplaced passes and poor gameplay overall.We've been very very poor in our passing game for some seasons now.For a game like this to
work you need players whonhold the ball very well and are
possession efficient.Look at the Arsenal starting lineup and compare it to that of years back and you'll know what I mean.We have very few
possession efficient players which is causing this problem.We don't have many players who can actually hold the ball and play the ball.That's what differentiates us from the top passing teams.
look wengerball is merely a concept borrowed from total
football of the dutch, tiki taka from barca, an it does nt
work if your missing key pieces as we always are.it had its time an it does not
work anymore,
possession football with no end product is why we looked rubbish last two seasons except the odd game - an i do stress odd,
And now some of our curent players know this too, I read the Cazorla article here where he said we have to be smart in some games... Our victory against ManCity last season was planned by the players... Our team in my opinion should either play pressing
football (as we did against UTD at home) or be pragmatic...
possession footbal now is not really
working for us
I think we should try playing counter - attack this game and not try to open them up with our usual
possession football because that never seems to
work.
The new Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is well aware that Arsenal play the
possession football that he wants his own team to play, but realises that it is too early to try and match them at their own game and instead is
working out a plan to stop the Gunners taking control of the game tomorrow night.
Thus, if Arsenal do play their
possession - based
Football, and guard against pacey counter-attacks from Martinez's side, the game could become an atritional one, with both sides
working out each other and attaining parity at the end of 90 minutes.
Our
possession football looks slow and pointless as we simply aren't creating enough chances, we don't have the personnel to carry out the philosophy and the PL is sometimes too frenetic to make the tactic
work.