Kieran Gibbs
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And that brings a different pressure to being the team that's trying to hunt down a city side that were at one point
you know, the strongest team in Europe by quite some.
So that is a different scenario for these Arsenal players.
And that takes the enjoyment out of it a little bit.
It feels quite wrong to be... Not that I feel bad about it, but we're taking apart a team that are, you know... Top of the league.
I'm okay with that, because I tell you what, it's nice to see the lack of... It's not a negative...
press conference and chat with Ruben Amorim with his chin on the floor, which at least that's a start.
It's almost like the programme to do a certain thing.
Because Arsenal play in triangles like a lot of these teams.
Little boxes, little triangles, these little one-twos.
And it's always like when the ball goes out to Saka or a wide player, they have to have two or three players to be able to do that in that area.
But I go back to the point I made earlier, that that just crowds the area out for technical players like Saka.
If I had a good wide player who I thought had the full back on toast, I am making sure nobody's going, I'm making sure I'm firing the ball out to him and I am telling everybody else, isolate him.
But I don't see that from, it's not just Arsenal, I don't see that from teams now.
It's almost like, well, this is how we do it, so we've got to go and do it this way, whereas I'm wanting to rely on the individual skill of certain players