Thierry Henry
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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He ran 12 kilometres further than anyone else on the pitch this evening.
You're going to get that from Aaron Ramsey.
I think the question was always, when he played as a holding midfielder, and that's the question mark that they rectified against Chelsea the other day.
Like you said, the distances were tighter, they were more organised, and so we want to see that more often than not when they're going to play away from home.
But today, what was interesting, sorry, that Mesut Ozil didn't play, so he could play higher.
So at times when Mesut Ozil is going to come back, or not, or whatever it's going to be, I don't know, because the boss has to make the decision, he's going to have to be in that situation where he's going to have to keep it tight, the winger's going to have to tuck in.
How they're going to tuck in the same way that it will be in a well-baked DDG over there, that is the thing.
But he talked about an important thing there, consistency.
That's what that team is missing at times, especially away from home.
Listen, there's something that I've seen that I didn't see for a very long time with that Arsenal side and Arsenal doing what they did.
More often than not, when Alexis Sanchez was back, whether it was his feet or not, he plays.
Ozil, whether it was his feet or not, or he trained a lot or not, he plays.
And the other day, I saw something at Chelsea.
OK, he didn't start at Chelsea, but when he came on, they put him up front.
because they were so well-organized, so they put him up front.
Today, he comes on, Ozil lives.
Then maybe we're reading a bit too much into that, but this is something that Arsenal wouldn't have done back in the days.
You're back, you're the man, you play.
The other day he was like, hang on a minute, that team has been working hard, we're going to go to Chelsea like that.
And now Ozil didn't start.