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Stevie Nicol

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2026 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

And you can see the difference with Raya and him.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

And that's maybe the difference that you can see between Arsenal and Chelsea.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

But it's true, otherwise, even 10 against 11, Chelsea were having more chances to score and were...

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

For me, better organised offensively than Arsenal.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

You cannot deny that it's a masterpiece that the French coach, the French coach on set pieces is able to do with Arsenal players and they really stick to it.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

But they have to do something.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Chelsea, we talked about that and Craig Burley has alluded to it many, many times where, you know, put Cole Palmer, Joรฃo Pedro and Neto, leave them at front and we'll see what Arsenal is going to do.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Because you will have less people in the 18-yard box, maybe you change to counter-attack and the Arsenal will wonder what they have to do.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

So maybe you have to try something.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

The more people you put in the middle of it, the more messy it gets.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

So I was a little bit frustrated.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

I want to say that on Rice, on the first corner, when Rice touched the ball with his handball, there are a combo of fouls.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

First, he grabs the guy, so it's already a foul.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Then after, there is a handball.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Well, good for Chelsea, this goal on the following corner.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

But really, I think there was a foul, so there should have been a penalty for me.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

Well, you know, it's part of the football.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

We have to accept that.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

And I remember when I was playing, already 65% of goals were coming from set pieces.

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Arsenal's Aerial Attack

So you have to accept the fact that it can happen and that's a skill and that you have to work on that.