Leeds United v Arsenal: Premier League – Live! | Football

14 min A good couple of minutes from Leeds, earning a corner on the right that ends with Kilch. He has time to put a ball in the box, but he cannot put it where he has men.

12 min Nice from Leeds, Harrison strode inside left and feeding Alioski into the overlap; his low crossover is decent too, but Bamford can only give one shove and Leno saves.

12 min But here comes Tierney again, hitting a cross that is right over Pepe.

11 min And here’s Willian, wandering the middle, where Willock’s touch is heavy. But Ceballos takes possession well, changes the ball to the right and, with Pepe begging him for a pass, tries a shot from 25 meters that flies off the near post.

9 min Some need to tell Gary Neville that he is Daniel Leevee, not Daniel Lehvee.

7 min “I don’t think the inconsistent results from Leeds are that strange, they are not the result of the 2020 curse,” says Mary Waltz. “They play a hyper-aggressive, high-risk, high-reward style of soccer. When shooting with all cylinders it is a fearsome thing to contend with. But when it doesn’t work well, they are exposed and crushed. “

Yes, but that style is particularly susceptible to the unique rigors of our time, given the condensed match roster, although I also think Leeds suffer from having a manager and a system really, but they don’t have many elite players, if at all. there is some.

6 min Raphina gets a good firing from Klich and the entire center field is available to him, so he strides forward. He can shoot, but decides to get a little closer and then from 25 yards glides in a tame effort that flies high and wide.

4 min Arsenal are putting some pressure on Leeds, it seems they are trying to put them under pressure instead of trying to win the ball.

2 minutes “What’s going to happen is Pepe will catch the ball and make that strange move towards a defender and either lose the ball or just pass it to Holding and co,” says Ben Chapman, his weary resignation seeping into my screen.

Signing it always seemed a bit strange – all that money for someone who was not the Ivory Coast’s first eleven, who had had a great season playing for the second best team in a relatively low-level league, and no one else wanted to buy. the. But he has some skill and a little more time before his position is unrecoverable.

2 minutes Tierney prowls forward and finds Willock, whom Phillips allows through the line, but then hits his cross.

1 minute Willian got the kickoff, so I wonder if it’s really him in the middle … no, it’s Aubameyang.

Email! “And so, for Arsenal fans, it begins,” says Charles Antaki. “How many worse teams are there now in the Premier League: Fulham and four others? Three, two, others? How many for Arsenal to be safe and how many for Arsenal to be safe from ignominy? I share his feeling that this will be Leeds day, leaving Arsenal sad, confused and depressed. “

Arsenal will finish in the top eight, I guess, and they can finish above that, it’s very difficult to predict what will happen.

Leeds makes an iPad with a young man named Elliot, suffering from cancer but acting like your pet today. That’s a lovely touch, go young.

“I’m back?” Gary Nev asks. “I think they turned me down after my ‘hi Patrice’ interlude.”

It’s raining hard on Elland Road and when we cut there, Gary Neville is minding his own business, greeting Patrice Evra, who is also in the studio, as if they are not on camera.

Freddie Ljungberg is a great achievement for Sky, and he’s really good at Willock. whom he qualifies very well, speaking of how fast he is once he opens his legs (Steven Gerrard was also like that) and of Pepe, who says that he is brilliant one on one but has problems in accumulation because he makes bad decisions. Ultimately, Arteta doesn’t have many other options left, though at 25, it’s fair to wonder if she’ll ever get better enough.

They are not the colors of Arsenal, but I absolutely have this jersey. Obviously spoiled by patronage, but otherwise. I bet Hector Bellerin loves it.

Seeing that Aubameyang is in the middle, I imagine that Arsenal will play with Willian on the left and Pepe on the right. Previously, Pepe has been a bit neglected on the touchline, keeping his width so Aubameyang can attack the area, and if Willian plays on the wrong side, that will probably be the plan tonight. But it’s not useful for a player who also plays on the wrong side, likes to shoot, and is one of the best finishers on his team.

I really like Leeds on this. I’m not sure Arteta trusts his team enough to ask them to push against a team that does better, and his defense isn’t particularly good. Leeds will attack them quickly and they may need to stay in the game to allow their superior individual quality to take effect.

Bielsa says that his team “often creates danger” but sometimes its efficiency lowers the desired result. He hopes they can “create danger” today. I feel like really to know the.

Arteta says her team has a great challenge ahead and he has moved Aubameyang into the middle, which he has always said is an option, and which he considers appropriate today. He says his team must be accurate when playing through the Leeds press.

And what about Patrick Bamford? Sometimes something just happens for the players, when the circumstances are right and they level up. And other times, do players have a period where they play the best they can and things just happen to them? Which is, because I have no idea.

I guess Arteta will still like that he is giving his defense adequate protection because in front of them Xhaka won’t move much and Ceballos won’t move charges so there will still be plenty of bodies for Leeds to pass through. And perhaps Willock’s presence suggests that Willian will play center, if the goal is for the former to beat the latter. But I’m still not sure that a team that creates so little can afford to have their only serious goal threat from the left, because while that can make Aubameyang difficult to score when attacking from the inside out, it takes a long time. out of the game.

Elsewhere, West Ham ranks eighth, Sebastian Haller’s blow that gave them a victory at Sheffield United, who remain behind and have fewer points than the overlapping centrals.

As for Arsenal, yes, Arteta has had enough. He may be misreading things, but to me it looks like he’s gone from 3-4-3 to 4-3-3, something I’m sure he planned to do, but from a position of strength, not weakness. He also moves his most likely scorer to center forward I think, but it is also possible that Willian plays as a fake

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nine. In midfield, however, Joe Willock finally gets the start that his cup performances have earned; Your willingness to shoot, overtake forwards, and generally take risks should add energy worth the downside to your forward pass. I’m a little surprised Bukayo Saka isn’t starting, on the left, but him and Willock and the midfield, and you would really be talking, but on the right, I think the time has come to give Nicolas Pepe a chance. and see what happens (although we can probably guess).

So what does all this mean? Well, the return of Kalvin Phillips is big news for Leeds, bringing their school bun ratio to 782. It’s not the remotest coincidence that his absence coincided with that pair of 4-1 tousings, not just because it protects a back. dicky. four, but because his passing means his team has more ball and creates more opportunities. And Marcelo Bielsa makes another change, handing Raphina her first Premier League start, in place of Struijk.

Leeds United (a 4-1-4-1 pedagogical): Meslier; Ayling, Koch, Cooper, Dallas; Phillips, Alioski, Raphinha, Klich, Harrison; Bamford. Subs: Casilla, Poveda, Roberts, Costa, Rodrigo, Struijk, Davis.

Arsenal (4-3-2-1 from a sophisticated): Log; Bellerin, Holding, Gabriel, Tierney; Xhaka, Willock, Ceballos; Willian, Pepe, Aubameyang. Subs: Runarsson, Saka, Lacazette, Maitland-Niles, Mustafi, Nelson, Nketiah.

The world is strange and people are strange, so it is no wonder that football is strange, it is played by people in the world. But it has rarely been as strange as now, and the two teams playing this afternoon are stranger than most.

Few Premier League teams have impressed as much as Leeds this season, which was especially good against Liverpool and Man City. However, the back-to-back 1-4 losses, to Leicester and Palace, indicated a fragility in defense and in mind, and they are somehow now 15th in the table. This is not so impressive.

Meanwhile, Arsenal were impressively aggressive at Manchester United only to be beaten at home by Aston Villa. More particularly, they are struggling to score and struggling to create, a problem that seems no closer to being solved now than it was in the summer. But maybe that last game will precipitate a change, because while it requires one or two players, the best the squad has to offer is definitely better than this, this being a goal in four league games, and a penalty conceded unnecessarily. Mikel Arteta’s team selection will present their thoughts on this to us.

All of which is to say that this is a really interesting matchmaking with the potential to become a really exciting game. Leeds will take him to Arsenal because that is what they do, and Arsenal could respond in kind because that is what they have been forced to do.

Start: 4.30 pm GMT