Incredible Team workrate

Thats a bit of a stupid comment but I will let it pass..

The context being Arsenal's terrible off ball and imbalance under work rate under Wenger has been corrected by Unai.

If you look at passes top 5 pass success rate

1) City 88.7
2) Chelsea 88
3) Liverpool 84.7
4) Spurs 83.5
5) Arsenal 83.2

Arsenal and Chelsea are both forming a new style of play similar to Spurs of high intensity, high passing and high work rate.

One of my favourite things about the best teams in the world is the amount of running they do.

And Arsenal are in the top 5 possession too....people look at the points and generalise everything. There is no doubt Unai is bedding new style at Arsenal a style that with right investment will take Arsenal to the top and definitely higher than Wenger's mess.

comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 17 minutes ago
One of my favourite things about the best teams in the world is the amount of running they do.
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We've got our Arsenal back. George Graham Arsenal, that's

comment by 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 Emery Poor man's Mourinho 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷 (U10012)
posted 0 seconds ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 17 minutes ago
One of my favourite things about the best teams in the world is the amount of running they do.
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We've got our Arsenal back. George Graham Arsenal, that's
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Actually with some reflections, that's not true. Grahams team never leaked so many goals

Arsenal and Chelsea are both forming a new style of play similar to Spurs of high intensity, high passing and high work rate.
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I agree. But at the moment the Arsenal squad lack players who can transition the ball quickly. People forget how hard the likes of Gilberto, Vieira, Freddie, Pires, and especially Denis worked off the ball. The difference is that they had very quick transitions around the pitch. Their first thought was to look forward and never pass backwards. I just don't know why Arsene changed his style to possession at all costs with so much sideways and backwards passing. Some of our players are still doing that unfortunately.

comment by 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 Emery Poor man's Mourinho 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷 (U10012)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
comment by 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 Emery Poor man's Mourinho 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷 (U10012)
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comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 17 minutes ago
One of my favourite things about the best teams in the world is the amount of running they do.
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We've got our Arsenal back. George Graham Arsenal, that's
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Actually with some reflections, that's not true. Grahams team never leaked so many goals
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Graham's team never scored as many goals either, are we not the 3rd highest?

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 2 hours, 10 minutes ago
Arsenal and Chelsea are both forming a new style of play similar to Spurs of high intensity, high passing and high work rate.
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I agree. But at the moment the Arsenal squad lack players who can transition the ball quickly. People forget how hard the likes of Gilberto, Vieira, Freddie, Pires, and especially Denis worked off the ball. The difference is that they had very quick transitions around the pitch. Their first thought was to look forward and never pass backwards. I just don't know why Arsene changed his style to possession at all costs with so much sideways and backwards passing. Some of our players are still doing that unfortunately.
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Yes, hence I said forming its not formed yet, I am sure Unai will be looking for similar players who can play to his system.

Glad he's got the team working hard out of possession but I hate the system being used, we don't have the defensive talent to execute it. The many mistakes have had the defenders doing so much running, the back line is injury plagued.

I remember the same thing happening to the MFs when Wenger switched to 4-3-3 and they had too much running to do. We need to keep the work rate but scrap the system until we have enough players good enough to use it well.

comment by Pep The Final Straw!! (Formerly WB2) (U8276)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
Glad he's got the team working hard out of possession but I hate the system being used, we don't have the defensive talent to execute it. The many mistakes have had the defenders doing so much running, the back line is injury plagued.

I remember the same thing happening to the MFs when Wenger switched to 4-3-3 and they had too much running to do. We need to keep the work rate but scrap the system until we have enough players good enough to use it well.
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Yes. I hate the 3-4-3 with a vengeance. Teams press us high anyway because they know our centre backs are very limited passing the ball forward. That means we end up playing 5-2-3. Consequently we are outnumbered in midfield and can't pass the ball forward. At the beginning of the season we still had the likes of Welbeck who could win it on the wing in the air but Iwobi is not that kind of player.

My only hope is that Emery is playing that because he doesn't trust Mustafi in a back 4. So will go back to 4-3-3 when Sokratis comes back.

Our best game was against Chelsea and really that should be the strongest team till we make changes in the summer.