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Arteta does it again! By Dan
While Aubameyang will get the most headlines for scoring once again at Wembley, the nicer aspect is that rookie Arteta once again surpassed one of the best coaches in the world.
Liverpool fans suggested that their defeat at the Emirates was due to the champions taking down the tools, and will no doubt suddenly refer to this match as just a friendly.
In the FA Cup final, Chelsea used the referee as an excuse.
However, including Man City in the Cup Semifinal, that’s 4 times now that we’ve won a great game because of our better tactics.
Maybe if you do it once you can call it luck, but when you keep winning despite the opposition sometimes dominating possession, that’s not a coincidence.
Sometimes yesterday our opponents had about 80 percent of the ball. However, that was deliberate on our part, that was part of the game plan, to soak up the pressure and then hit at halftime, knowing that we have a forward you can trust to be clinical.
I said before that many Gooners will not be used to this. If you are like me and grew up with Arsene Wenger, the idea of altering formations or styles based on the opposition would be a strange concept for you. That is because the French believed in their ethics and would not sacrifice their principles no matter what. His stance was in his own way that gave us the best chance of winning, so why worry about what others are doing? In the glory days of Henry, Vieira, Bergkamp, Pires, etc., maybe you could allow yourself to think like that. However, Arteta is smart enough to recognize the limitations of this team.
Part of finding a solution is admitting that you have a problem, and Spanish being honest about how far we are from those at the top requires more skill than you think. It is not easy to raise your hands and say that there are problems.
It takes a certain personality (especially early in your first job) to refuse to tell people what they want to hear and share with your players, staff, fans, and employers that certain things are wrong.
In the long term, our coach wants to push high and control the ball, but he has examined our weaknesses and found ideas that will give us the best possible chance of winning a match. It takes amazing man management to do that. First, to get a group that had lost all confidence under Emery to believe that they could beat teams so many points ahead of them in the table.
You can be on the training ground for hours exercising, but you can only do what Arteta has done if the players believe what he says.
He has taken footballers, many of whom are used to attacking and being positive, and is making them run, back down, defend as a unit, while convincing them that when the opportunity comes they are good enough to convert. .
Vieira once said that while working with José Mourinho at Inter Milan they taught him that it’s okay to acknowledge that another team is better than you, but that doesn’t mean you agree to lose against them. It just means that you have to find other ways to win.
So while there are games where we can get three points simply because we have talent that is technically better, when that is not the case, we are prepared to run faster, work harder, fight more. You can’t always say that of Arsenal over the years. Our last three performances at the Twin Towers have simply been very uncharacteristic of Arsenal.
Naturally, it is assumed that if he gets the players he wants, our coach has even more ideas to try. Logically, it will only improve the more experiences you accumulate.
If we had an ambitious owner, he would start to see that he might have someone special in that dugout capable of some amazing things, I’m just concerned that Stan Kroenke won’t live up to those ambitions of taking that extra step.
It’s only fair that I wait until October to judge this transfer window, but ultimately, I’m afraid we will fail, not because of who our manager is, but who he works for.
The only thing that would change about our performance is that I would have loved Auba to have donned the Black Panther mask, even though he paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
Gabon International teams are nicknamed ‘Panthers’ and their star man has admitted in the past that the mask / character was a representation of himself.
Upon hearing the sad news, he tweeted: ‘We’re all sorry! Rest in peace. You gave us so much hope and strength, thank you for everything. ‘
So I suppose there was some kind of fate Aubameyang scored hours after hearing that one of his heroes had passed away.
On behalf of everyone at Justarsenal, RIP Black Panther.
#wakandaforever. ‘
Dan Smith |
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