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Stevie Nicol

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1472 total appearances

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Nowadays what they try to do is to avoid mistakes on their own.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

So they try to be safe and secure and therefore they don't try enough, they don't risk enough in order to push the opponent to make mistakes and score goals.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

So that's why maybe that's the only time on set pieces that they give their full power to score goals.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

But we see that with Arsenal, with the tactic and the amount of players they put in.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

We can see that with Crystal Palace, with Chelsea as well.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

They are very good at it.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

But otherwise, they're very secure.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

They don't want to take any risk, don't want to lose the ball.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Therefore, they don't push themselves to push the opponent to make mistakes.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

You know, Chaka, it's funny because one of your former teammates at Newcastle, David Ginola, was using that with Arthur George, the coach of Paris Saint-Germain at the time in the beginning of the 90s, where they were scoring goals on corner kick, set pieces, a lot.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

putting everybody on the near post like Stevie said.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

And David scored so many goals with some others like Rai and George Weah as well.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

It was almost impossible to defend against them.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

They were putting like four guys in the near post and it was a nightmare for defenders and goalkeepers.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Even they were allowed to punch everybody.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

That didn't work.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

It must be you.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Did you send that to yourself?

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Yes, it's what he said.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

He was a sporting director, but he admitted that he had no clue what he had to do.