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Kieran Gibbs

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
318 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

I'm okay with that, because I tell you what, it's nice to see the lack of... It's not a negative...

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

press conference and chat with Ruben Amorim with his chin on the floor, which at least that's a start.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

But you know what I see a lot?

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

It's almost like the programme to do a certain thing.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

Because Arsenal play in triangles like a lot of these teams.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

Little boxes, little triangles, these little one-twos.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

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.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

But I go back to the point I made earlier, that that just crowds the area out for technical players like Saka.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

But when I was playing...

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

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.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

Do not get in that space.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

But I don't see that from, it's not just Arsenal, I don't see that from teams now.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

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

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

And Saka is one of them.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

If I'm a central midfielder, I'm getting him, him, and him with the scruff of the neck and say, when I play that ball out to him, I don't want you within 20 yards of that player because he's got one-on-one with the full-back and he's going to beat him nine times out of ten.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

I don't see that now.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

I see everybody running over like it's a school playground.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

You remember all the kids used to run over?

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

Bunching.

ESPN FC
Arsenal Attack Underwhelming?

And bunching.