Alejandro Moreno
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Podcast Appearances
It's the only thing that gives you drama when you're Arsenal.
There was certainly a shout for a penalty kick on Joao Pedro at the back post, where Salih was grabbing him to the ground.
That may have changed the dynamics of the game or the personality of the game.
Middle third, nonsense fouls, stoppages, complaining to the referee, booing from the crowd.
Nothing of quality to actually see on the field, and not that they're here to entertain us, because Arsenal, all they wanna do is get through to the next round, but Chelsea never really pushed.
Yeah, there were a couple of things here and there, but never really actually pushed Arsenal to a situation of being under pressure, kind of hanging on, grinding.
Chelsea wasn't strong enough offensively, and Arsenal did just enough.
That heat map that we show there from Djokovic is embarrassing.
70 minutes, 69 minutes that he played.
And while I understand that Arsenal are not a team that play through the centre-forward...
The heat map itself tells you that the movement isn't exactly all that sharp or abundant for that matter.
Well, yes, and he's nowhere near around the penalty box.
Look, I think sometimes as a center forward, you get frustrated by the lack of service and then that frustration amounts to you stop making the runs.
And that's the worst thing that you can do as a player, because you cannot lose sight of the fact that you can be useful to the team in other ways.
And while I advocate for center forwards to be patient, to allow the game to come to them, to not force it, not force the touches.
If you have touched the ball once in the first 30 minutes, I'm going to the center back and give me a ball, give me a touch.