David Jones
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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upright and let the ball hit him rather than him play the ball.
It was sublime.
Real quality.
So he's out there... Why didn't he do that, Alex?
Why not five at the back?
I don't know.
I think you're looking at a plan maybe what Newcastle did with the lower block.
But then it's actually, well, it's what you said, James.
It's Arsenal.
Arsenal are not used to defending that.
But did he have to do something different?
Because he's never got a result against Pep before.
So he's actually trying to look at that in a way that you can break City down.
He plays his two strikers today thinking, you know, these people will cause problems.
for any team if they can get quality into them.
And they did look lively in the first half, but not at all in the second half.
And he's come here knowing that, A, it's not his style, I don't believe, and also he's thinking, if my team can get on the front foot and get delivery into the strikers, we can cause them problems.
You know, when you talk about fives or fours, you can talk whatever systems you want.
If people don't do the job properly, it wasn't a five that caused them to concede, certainly, the first goal.
This was about people not doing their jobs.