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  • Francis-c92B
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    1 year ago

    Odegaard and Saka are both struggling a bit as that’s the side that the opposition crowd, specifically to hinder them.

    The difference between this and last season is that our left side is disjointed still, so there’s no real outlet there in the old Xhaka position for the opposition to care too much about.

    I’d like to see Odegaard drift a bit more across that area of the pitch between left and right to cause a bit of confusion and open the space up a bit more.

    Maybe things will change if we’re able to consistently put out the front three we want to as Eddie doesn’t move about anywhere near as much as Jesus

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      1 year ago

      I think more of a issue with the right side is Partey not playing in midfield.

      He tends to pass to the right in-between lines whereas jorginho is more sideways and rice more to the left.

      • Francis-c92B
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        1 year ago

        Possibly, but that’ll also be instruction as well. Potentially dictated by the congestion and what Arteta might see as an over reliance on that right side.

        When White was out or in the middle with another right back, we couldn’t get things together down that side and everything else wasn’t up to the standard either, so maybe Arteta is putting more focus on the left to help counter that