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Read that Carl Jenkinson interview on The Athletic - Couldn’t help but smile all the way through it. Fair play to him!
Sport is definitely the only career where you can be attacked and see colleagues due on your way to work and people will still be cheeky enough to say you wanted your career
Our highest expected goals against this season is 1.4. Last season we had 11 games with xGa greater than that. Our highest xGa game last season was Liverpool away with 3.9 xGa (20 shots total) and with a midfield of Partey, Xhaka, Odegaard, and Holding in defense - surely however, the issue went beyond Holding.
There were many objections to the moving Odegaard left article which were already addressed in the article tbh, including the idea that Odegaard could be just as productive on the left, if not even more. Moreover, the article also makes this point which perhaps explains why Odegaard himself has been less productive this season:
Where Martin Ødegaard comes in (or more aptly doesn’t come in) is exploiting that increased pitch via finding those “remote spaces”. Martin Ødegaard largely attempts to find solution within the right hand side, he takes a lot of touches (which is a large reason why he retains the ball so well) and due to the open angles he operates in he’s rarely forced into playing outside of his comfort zone (which I’ll touch on later). This tends to reduce the isolations that occur on the left hand side due to him not directly accessing whoever is holding width, as well as leading to teams being able to more confidently tilt their block towards the right (as seen often with how many players always seem to be surrounding Bukayo Saka when he receives the ball)- if he doesn’t consistently attempt to access the left then the right can be clogged up more as immediate danger isn’t neccessarily present. As Pep Guardiola put it “In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.” The issue with Ødegaard is that he’s really good at making the defence tilt towards the right but he’s not so good at punishing the defence for their tilting and therefore he is no longer forcing the defence to tilt- it’s entirely deliberate on their part. That’s the main problem with how the right half space is used, here (in my opinion) are the solutions.
I really wish Havertz worked out man. We’re stuck here talking about the midfield issues we have been for years.
If Bayern get Varane it would be very funny because if ETH survives that long you just know he’ll sign a total bum
Need Ukraine to beat Italy. Would be amazing
I have finally seen the light
most football analysis is worthless
there really isn’t much more to it than putting one right in their fucking goal hole
Rice and Saka look to be starting tonight in one of England’s most useless matches this year as they’ve already qualified… Southgate is such a loser man.
Since I want Ukraine to win, Mudryk is soooo frustrating to watch. He’s just a pace merchant
Should have played Trent at RB
If I say what players past and present this fits at Arsenal yeah 😂😂😂😂😂
This has been the longest international break fr
Rival fans and the general football media trying to force the revisionism on Unai Emery’s Arsenal time as it wasnt that bad and maybe Arsenal were naive to sack him.
Yet when the actually terrorism football was happening week in week out, the same group of fanbases where saying he should be sacked asap. lmfao
You cannot make this shit up.
Do you guys reckon we might see Martinelli in the CF role ?
