Why Arsenal Were BETTER Than They Looked Against Atalanta 

I always tell people I'm better than I look

people dont understand that theyre gonna be forced to evolve tactically after losing odegaard. still finding footing but they look solid

Seeing how good Calafiori is at interceptions , driving forward with the ball, finding space and passing. I wonder if he could be utilised to compensate in some way for Odegarrd's absence.

Poetry requested: Arsenal wear red City wear blue No Martin Odegaard Means we’re in the poo. Good video, fair assessment and I agree we were one decent finish away from a big win against a side that battered LFC and Leverkusen. It’s what we did at City last year, if Trossard had seen the ball to Martinelli with about 10 mins left he’d have had the chance to win it for us. I don’t hold out much hope of a win at the Etihad but I just don’t want the game swung on some nonsense onfield officiating or ridiculous VAR call. Love how fans of other teams hate when you talk about how good our manager is.😂

I think Calafiori is that un-pressable 2nd guy who can play in pockets (after Odegaard). He did more for our buildup in 20 minutes than Timber did in 70. Nothing against Timber , I love his versatility but his best position is RB (allows him to properly overlap) and White should be rested because he's looked mediocre in the last 2 games after the international break. Hopefully we see a Timber-Saliba-Gabriel-Calafiori partnership sometime soon.

Even though I rejoice in the fact that Arsenal have learned how to defend properly again under Arteta, I think the really remarkable thing about the Atalanta game was how it made Saed Kolasinac look like a good player, when I think about how poor he was in his latter days at Arsenal. Good as Odegaard is, the manager really should be able to find a way to get the team on the ball even when he's not in the team. I'm sure he will.. well yeah he will, maybe after the City game.

Thanks, Adam, for another great explanation of why Odegaard is so vital to the style of football Arsenal play.

I like the fact you talked about why Arsenal didnt go for a striker

Why buy rice whi can't hold the ball, can't carry forward, can't dribble only good at side pass, back pass, anyhow pass? Can't even take a proper free kick.

I dare the media to actually criticise Arsenal 💀

I was at this game, while it was an interesting game and were incredibly defensively solid it is clear that ø is our most important player

It’s like you only cover Arsenal games these days

It doesn’t hurt to tell the truth…

It’s fun to watch defensive greatness as well.

Arsenal need to evolve without Odegaard, if we cannot do without him and win games, we are not ready to be a complete XI, city without KDB do suffer sometimes but they still win regardless. we cannot afford to be a one man team and besides odegaard isn't messi esque tbh.

I honestly think Zinchenko would be in Odegaard's role if he wasn't injured. With Vierra gone, it's either him or Gabriel that would have subbed for Odegaard in a game. We wouldn't have to worry about Zinchenko's defensive shortcomings in that right-8 position as much and he could still play a killer ball.

Arteta needs to give Nwaneri a run of starts. Just such a tough schedule of games to do it in. I get the sense that Arteta is worried about destroying the kid's confidence if the games don't go our way

Would playing Zinchenko as replacement for Odegaard work ? He is very good on the ball going forward and would help in organizing the press too

I'd argue that even with Odegaard in the team, a strong striker would do Arsenal a world of good. Having someone in the mold of Isak/Gyokeres/Osimhen up top and a midfield of Rice, Odegaard, Havertz would significantly improve them.

Man I wish we'd gone in for Frenkie De Jong while the situation at Barcelona was still chaotic. It's starting to stabilize now and I doubt he'll want to leave just to play second fiddle. Though I have no idea of how he'd do in a high press, he definitely has that ability to take the ball in tight spaces and turn and move it forward.

I suspect Arteta wanted us to play like this again to practice for Man City.

Arsenal have 1 position which is absolutely essential to their style of play. So you might think that they would have a backup if the player in that position got serioiusly injured. So what do they do? Get rid of the two players, Smith-Rowe and Veiria, who could have deputised for Odegaard. They have deputies for the goalkeeper, full backs, cenrebacks, defensive midfield, centre forward, wingers, but not an attacking creative number 8. Not too clever of Arteta.

We had Emile smith rowe. HAD 😢

If odegaard is so important for arsenal chances for any sort of cup that means there is clearly lack of depth in squad. Hopefully merino would help in this

Came down to good saves by both teams and Martinelli not scoring clear chances twice.

That match on Sunday will be so boring to watch 😑 and Arsenal may steal it with one goal because their defence is so solid

Arsenal had an issue with technical quality, execution and mentality

Why sell Fabio Viera. Why Sell Smith Rowe. They're the closest to Martin Odegard that we had.

I think the main problem is more rather squad depth than anything, this injury situation we’ve just came out of kind of shows , if we had invested in the window as heavily as maybe the fan base would have liked a lot of these issues don’t arise due to people coming in and being able to fill in the gaps in personnel play styles instead of trying to convince ourselves relying on a 17 year old Ethan is the answer

Why doesn't he give Ethan nwaneri a chance in that Odegaard position(already Odegaard is mentoring him)

is Calafiori supposed to be able to do the Odegard part?

Rice and Timber and Martinelli are all right footed so they all want to take it inside. You need a left footer there for balance in the attack. Combine that with a midfield saturated with defensive minded midfielders that aren't comfortable holding the ball and just want to release it. Not a fun watch

Martinelli is really finished

Bro, theyre missing 1 players and everybody is collapsing. The hypocrisy of football media.

Sloppy passing was tbe issue.The touches were awful😅 Nullified the Atlanta press though but the attack needs to click

Because we don’t have odegaard doesn’t mean we’re not going to play our football anymore. Get someone who can receive the ball in tight spaces and create chances in that CAM role e.g. trossard/ Nwaneri. Going long at this point just shows how scared we are

I am so scared for martinelli, the guy is now a serious disappointment n its sad.

City could do without KdB and not make every game borefest. You are trying really hard to not anger Arsenal fanboys

Finally some positivities🎉🎉❤😂

Awesome video Adam!

We have a massive, Norwegian shaped hole in our midfield

They score lots of goals against teams in the PL, but when it come to the CL, their attack clearly lack someone who want to score goals and is capable of doing it at a world class level, just look at the Bayern match last season or this Atalanta match . It doesn't need to be a striker, a winger is fine too. If Arsenal truly think this is enough, i have to question their ambition. They know they aren't good enough, but still decided against investing more in this team. How long are they gonna wait, how much patience do they think fans have for the club lack of success. I feel they are too rick averse in everything that they do, not only transfers but also tactics. Arteta seem to prefer defensive stability over the team's attack. For example, in the Atalanta match, Martinelli is always asked to track back, so he couldn't counter effectively and when he did have a chance, he was too tired to make the most of it. It was the reason Arsenal didn't win the league, it was the reason Arsenal lose against Bayern and it will be the reason why they won't win anything this season, maybe beyond that too.

lol these have guys have figured out that posting more videos about arsenal is gonna help them get most views

Lord knows i needed some copium

Forget to mention Martinelli and Jesus was just giving the ball away constantly. Even with Odegaard them 2 are letting arsenal down bigtime. They both need to be benched till they up there game. We could end up loosing Trossard over Martinelli starting which would be shambles. Trossard doesn't deserve to sit behind Martinelli. TBF Jesus needs replacing every time he plays watching arsenal is very frustrating because we look good moving the ball around beating the press nice passing and moving looking like were about to score then Jesus just gives the ball away so so cheaply most the time with too many touches or bad pass or spoons it. Id put sterling ahead of him and see what sterling can do for us as he's known to score goals with his great positioning.

Atalanta were far superior , so much for the Premier League being the best league in the world !

Crappy analysis. Glossing over a Crap play. Park the bus. Launch it to the front and hope for the best.

Raya has to be in consideration for the top 5 keepers in the world, maybe even top 3. World class keeper

Id argue that you do need to look at how many second balls were won <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="433">7:13</a> , or even how many times after the unsuccessful pass did arsenal win the ball within 5 seconds... The long ball works well with Rice and Havertz challenging for the ball ... They just need an extra player to flood the defence to make them "once in a match chances" stronger

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Somehow Arteta has managed to be even more boring than Pep - and that takes some doing.

Odegaard Merino Viera* Zinny Nwaneri *.... the right 8.

Why don't you just rename the channel OFFICIAL ARSENAL TACTICS CHANNEL?

They lost just martin odegaard now put into context the amount of first team players Chelsea and United lost last szn.

Spot on but Rice Jesus and Martinelli and quite a few just playing bellow best on ball as well. Squad is thin. We ain't winning the league

You can always count on youtubers giving praise to Arsenal for making a <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="0">0:0</a> draw... Or to win matches by scoring corners, guess which club gets ignored, even if the win trophies🤔🤔🤔

So we clearly have a MØ problem, here is my opinion: First of all your videos are amazing, now, we can't play the ball long if the number 9 is short, Havertz should be the 9 right now. Our defense has been incredible and if it keeps performing that way we can win games. But just like against Tottenham, Trossard could be the solution for now, against them e did good, not great, not at the level of MØ, but he did good. We can also risk it all and give a chance to Nwaneri, i think he got the quality, but after Man City. One last thing, Martinelli need to wake the sake up.

It is a "we're fucked"

The closest player we have to odegaard is nwaneri but arteta chose to put a 6'4 clumsy striker in his stead . Arteta is very stubborn in his way of thinking , he always sticks to the same players and tactics. Another is gabriell martinelli who was so bad in every game of the season but still starts over trossard its quite shocking what arteta chooses to stick to

Come on man. Lets not fuck around. They sat back and defended all game and were shit during their couple of attacks. Deserved to lose

Sunday will be boring Mach as usual

LMAO they weren't good. Stop trying to sugar coat it. If it wasn't for Raya, Arsenal would have 0 pts.

Brah you guys gotta stop the glaze, it's getting ridiculous now, they were poor. Just lost a sub.

Are we watching the same game?

🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪💯 arsenal fan

Why buy rice whi can't hold the ball, can't carry forward, can't dribble only good at side pass, back pass, anyhow pass? Can't even take a proper free kick.