Arsenal vs Manchester City

Arsenal vs Manchester City ( 0-1 )

Arsenal were outclassed and dominated last night by Man City's high press and ability to win the ball back in the opposition. In this tweet, I'll be covering on things which Manchester City got right and what Arsenal got wrong.


City Press All The Way: Manchester City got off to a great start, which saw them score in the opening 90 seconds at the Emirates. It was quite shocking to see Sterling (5'7) win a header ahead of the likes of Rob Holding (6'2) and Pablo Mari (6'3) who had been caught off-guard and complete froze in the box. Apart from the early lead, City pressed high up on the field causing arsenal to pass and play in the back which lead to several errors being committed by their defenders and midfielders. This press did end up giving Manchester City more chances and on another day they would've easily managed to score 2-3 more goals. During the game, Manchester City were facing some counter attacking threats by the Gunners but dealt with them at ease and John Stones and Ruben Dias constantly got the better of Aubameyang and Pepe. 


No Ceballos No Partey : Arsenal had 42% of the possession but approximately 40% of that was with the arsenal defences and their defensive midfielders. Due to City pressing high up on the field, the players were forced to play it around the back as they didn't want to lose the ball but that anyways ended up happening quite often during the game. The Elneny and Xhaka pivot was quite incapable of playing the ball forward as both of them are very defensive minded and the need for Ceballos was quite evident as they needed someone to carry the ball forward or needed a connecting point between the defensive minded players and the attack minded players. Due to not having any connection between the two, the likes of Aubameyang and Pepe barely had the ball to make any difference and felt like they had disappeared during the game.






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