Rewatching yesterday game. City just went all in with high pressing in the first minutes. Our midfielder just didn’t have technical ability to by pass that high pressing.
We were surrounded in our half for 30 minutes. Especially in that Ode and Jorginho side. Ode and Jorginho just don’t have the physicality to defend against high pressing and nor the technical ability to by pass it by using dribbling or passing.
This makes Raya have to take risk of long ball to Nketiah and Jesus to bypass that high pressing. But Nketiah and Jesus just don’t have the height and physicality to hold long ball because they were facing up against 6 ft CB and LB.
After city were exhausted, finally we can progress the ball to their half.
If we had the same starting line up like last season, I’m pretty sure city will eventually score a goal with that high pressing even if KDB and Rodri didn’t start
Moral of the story? Havertz have to start in CF in the next big game. He has the height, and strength to hold the ball. Buying Rice with 100M is the best purchasing arsenal have ever done
Agree with all of this pretty much. People blaming Raya when a lot of the team were struggling early and the Alavarez block was as much down to the pass to Raya as it was down to Raya.
Havertz at centre forward worked in the CS so not really sure why we didn’t do it again unless Arteta thought he would be more useful as a sub when the game becomes stretched later on
Eddie has been bad all season and shouldn’t be starting.
You can’t honestly say that Jesus doesn’t have the physicality to hold a long ball. He does it all the time. It’s not just about height.
I think Kai is better at CF than he is at the 8, but there’s no way he starts the next game (or any game) at CF when Martinelli, Jesus, and Saka are all healthy.
Rewatching yesterday game. City just went all in with high pressing in the first minutes. Our midfielder just didn’t have technical ability to by pass that high pressing.
We were surrounded in our half for 30 minutes. Especially in that Ode and Jorginho side. Ode and Jorginho just don’t have the physicality to defend against high pressing and nor the technical ability to by pass it by using dribbling or passing.
This makes Raya have to take risk of long ball to Nketiah and Jesus to bypass that high pressing. But Nketiah and Jesus just don’t have the height and physicality to hold long ball because they were facing up against 6 ft CB and LB.
After city were exhausted, finally we can progress the ball to their half.
If we had the same starting line up like last season, I’m pretty sure city will eventually score a goal with that high pressing even if KDB and Rodri didn’t start
Moral of the story? Havertz have to start in CF in the next big game. He has the height, and strength to hold the ball. Buying Rice with 100M is the best purchasing arsenal have ever done
Thanks west ham!
Agree with all of this pretty much. People blaming Raya when a lot of the team were struggling early and the Alavarez block was as much down to the pass to Raya as it was down to Raya.
Havertz at centre forward worked in the CS so not really sure why we didn’t do it again unless Arteta thought he would be more useful as a sub when the game becomes stretched later on