After an underwhelming few years, Arsenal took a big step in the right direction in the 2022/23 season. Although their silverware drought continued, they jumped up to second in the league and gave Manchester City a real run for their money, quite clearly looking like the second-best side in the country behind the treble-winners. The
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The problem with this system is that Arteta rarely tweaks things and tries to mitigate risk against specific opposition. Similar to Wenger - more ideological that pragmatic.
We should trial this system against obviously weaker opposition.
Will be interesting to see how dependent Arteta was on Xhaka - treated him like a comfort blanket since he arrived.
@merc
The problem with this system is that Arteta rarely tweaks things and tries to mitigate risk against specific opposition. Similar to Wenger - more ideological that pragmatic.
We should trial this system against obviously weaker opposition.
Will be interesting to see how dependent Arteta was on Xhaka - treated him like a comfort blanket since he arrived.