Arteta has TRANSFORMED Arsenal again (without you noticing) 

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I think the tv commentators mentioned this yesterday that every outfield from Arsenal had at least one shot at goal.

cant wait for next season

If we are going to let Partey go, we need to find a Saliba kind 6, We simply dropped about 6 points because of not having a Partey, Jorginho gave us some points also, I think Rice is best at 8 than 6 unless we find another odegaard to play left 8

Next season we are taking major honors. trust in mikel!

Top vid Harvey,I do believe rice is a long term 6 but can’t help to feel that would limit him he’s got so much ability and potential going forward,he’s getting better game by game.

Excellent video. I was at the game and noticed quite how much more flexible our build-up looks. It's been been gradual, but now such a contrast to last season, where it really was the Zinchenko show. Really fascinated to see how Arteta evolves us next season, with Timber returning and potentially a new central midfielder.

great analysis

Appreciate the preperation for this, great analysis, subbed x

Brilliant analysis of what can be quite complex to breakdown since it seems so random at times but there's order to the chaos. Looking at Tomiyasu and the positions he was taking up yesterday I was just seeing Timber. His press resistance and drive on the ball was made for that role. Hope he gets a solid preseason and doesn't suffer from the issues players with his injuries normally suffer from when they return

Partey was the missing piece apart from Timber. Jorginho can PASS like Partey, but he lacks the pace and strength that TP5 has. Like, it’s crazy just how badly we’ve missed him in the midfied cus now Rice has his shackles unbound and he can play box to box

Love this analysis, keep it up mate 💪🏾

trossard is underrated by most fans

i like the idea of the 344(diamond). All depends on the defensive capability of odegaard on the right cm role tho. If he can step up it would open the way to accomodate another Goalscorer without sacrificing our chance creation (like city did with haaland and alvarez) and we could even play this "more offensive" formation in big games. Nice video and amazingly broken down! Keep up the good work my man!

Good analysis.

it must be a great feeling how good Havertz has been for you. His numbers have been staggering in the last couple of months, G/A is greater than matches played

Let me start off firstly by congratulating you on yet another excellent bit of content once again. Right, now that we have the pleasantries and formalities out of the way, lets dig into what i have observed based on some of the stuff you mentioned in your video. I remember on Saturday, the commentators in the Arsenal game did mention that every outfield arsenal player had at least 1 shot in the match. It seems like arteta is evolving with his team. An interplay between positionism and relationism which is quite synonymous with thiago motta's bologna, inzaghi's inter an even Michel's Girona (to an extent). In previous years gone by, positional play seemed to be the dominant philosophy, however, football has evolved in the years gone by. Most recently in the last couple years from my recollection, Fernando Diniz and his obsession with relationism which is clearly the antithesis of positional play has seemingly influenced a new generation of coaching and coaches. With relationism it basically insinuates or more so blatantly highlights (😂) that structure is useless, however, as I mentioned before we have seemingly unearthed a new generation of coaching and coaches who have seemingly married both ideas to say "hang on a minute, we can be very fluid within a structure". As you said "fluid rigidity" The more i watch football, i tend to recognize that modern coaches are increasingly adopting this hybrid approach that merges these concepts (just like hybrid pressing is being increasingly used now as well). I have noticed 2 ideas in this approach: 1) Structured positional base: The team maintains a base formation, providing a framework for player movement and ensuring defensive stability. 2) Relational freedom within the structure: So it's basically where the players are given the freedom to move within their positions to exploit spaces and create attacking opportunities. It's almost as if this hybrid approach offers the best of both worlds: tactical organization and flexibility, control and creativity. To end things off I'd like to call this new approach flexi-positioning because it captures the essence of the approach by combining "flexi" (meaning flexible or adaptable) with "positioning." It emphasizes the structured positional base that provides a foundation while acknowledging the freedom for players to move within those positions based on the game situation. I can breathe now after saying a mouthful lol

Great analysis, as ever, keep it up

All I thought about from your statement of them having more freedom in positioning and them expressing themselves is the "Ancelloti tactic" that's exactly what he said he does, he lets them do what they think is best offensively and they only have a structure defensively and heck it works.

Bro this video is insane!

Awesome analysis

Top work

very informative and clearly explained and presented. new subscriber here mate. keep up the good work

Unbelievable again, simply unbelievable

awesome video

Great to see different faces to arsenal... Keeps teams guessing, seeing the midfield completely change IE Jorg the left 8 v pool, ode dropping deep, just need timber to link with haverts and mart on the left and we're flying

first & only sub because you deserve it buddy

Great video! On the topic of IP structure, does more frequent rotations have limitations and should teams just focus more on rigid structures with specific zone dominators across the field or is the value from incorporating both rigidity and fluidity just too great to lean onto one specific idea

I'm excited about what the 3-4-3 could look like next season. Would Rice be the 6 which may been inverting from the rb position? Will Havertz remain up top which could bring in a player like Viera/ESR as the 'Raumdeuter' type and a player like Bruno G as the left sided 8 in the diamond? So many possibilities!

Harvey, I have being thinking about a rigid 3-5-2 for cup( Champions League, FA, Carabao) competition's next season. Kindly do an analysis of this context: Raya Timber -Saliba -Gabriell White - Rice- Partey - Odegaard - Martinelli Kai - Saka Compactness & Allowing for dominance in the game 1-0 nil to the Arsenal.

Arsenal must be the most analysed team in the EPL. They can’t stop trying to unpick how this team works.

I think Tommy in the LB position is actually more of a progession offensively as he is more creative going forward which actually compliments Rice better when Rice is in the left midfield/8 role.

Love you content, but to put it simpler it s just rondos moving up the pitch. There is a saying in football 11 v11 is in the tunnel. When the game starts it is lots of small sided games of rondos. In the clips you showed there were lots of SSG and Rondos.

MY GUY

You expose Arsenal tactics

I was waiting for bayren’s analyzes why we were so poor !

How comes Arteta stopped the 3-2-5 build up with white as an inverted fb with kiwior lcb it worked really well

Harvey as I heard, Mikel will try to bring another lb in the summer. what do you think, why do we need left back, when we have timber, zinchenko, tomiyasu and kiwior? Meanwhile Saliba has no cover 🫣

Jurien Timber's J is pronounced

With Arteta. I think Arsenal might go unbeaten next season.

Arteta have another step in mind to score more I imagine. It takes time so there’s risks of draw. I think he tried it in the wrong time against Aston Villa. Anyway I think still this season was still short of top class striker…Without this, competing against KDB, Haaland, Alvarez,…is difficult

Excelente Sir Harvey, keep on doing the Damm thing..

Is it evolution, or is it within our DNA to be adaptable to situations given to us?

How about saliba went all the way to have a shot?

harvey do u think with poch changing chelsea system with cucurella as inverted fullback and chelsea having so many top players are u worried chelsea have more chances of league titles than arsenal in a few years, also which english team do u think will dominate next few years. are u worried abou chelsea,liverpool,spurs or are arsenal clear?

Partey and jorginho are not going anywhere,elnenny is going for free and might be joined by lokonga on the way out we can't afford to lose 3 midfielders in the same window,the priority for arsenal should be a striker and a right winger and a left back if zinchenko leaves.

truthfully i don't want to ever see havertz at the top of the 3-diamond-3

Why do you say "without you noticing?". More and more of this type of content is coming up on RU-vid. And I don't get that statement. What do you think I'm doing when I watch a game of football? I think most fans are watching the game and taking in everything about it. So yes I have noticed very, very many things this season that Arteta and the coaching staff have implemented this season. Maybe I should start a football fan channel telling people what they have seen....

What you are describing is not that different from what we ve seen last year. In fact, Teta went from what wasn't working in 1st half of this season to what worked last year in the second half of this season, which is what many have been calling for, and it took teta long time to figure it out. Of course with the actors being different, there will be differences in build up and etc. On teta losing partey and missing him, let's not forget that before his injury partey played at rb in pl, so you can't claim that it was his plan all along, so that's misleading or making excuses for teta, still good video tho 👍 btw on timber, if you are alluding to timber inverting into the bottom of the diamond next season thats probably likely, the only thing is not sure how he ll perform as a deep playmaker, we haven't seen that much of him

Would love to see him evolve Arsenal to their first league title in 20 years on the 20th anniversary since the Invincibles, but have a feeling he blew it at home against Aston Villa. Winning the title is the only evolution I want to be hearing about.

No.. Aston Villa has transformed Arsenal into this.. 0 - 2 😂😂 and next club to do that is Man United