billie86 wrote:Even with just highlights of the games you can see our movement was far superior especially in the attacking third. Our movement up front was non existent against wigan the other day, ive noticed it a few times that when we have the ball in midfiled there is a monsterous gap between them and the striker and wingers. Podolski, walcott and ox all seem to want to play on the last man and get through on goal rather than coming short to collect the ball from the midfield, imo podolski and ox (or whoevers is on the wing) should be coming inside and giving the midfield options to pass to. The old arsenal always seemed to have 2 passes available at least whenever we had the ball but nowadays a lot of the time the only option is backwards and i think this is a major factor. Pires and ljungberg would drop and link up play behind the strikers but that doesn't happen now, if ox or poldi would come short to make an option for a pass it will drag the opposition left and right backs with them, this is where gibbs and sagna can exploit the space.
Yeah, there's no doubting that the attacking movement was much better. I was looking to see more of the overall flow of play throughout the full match though. Along with the defensive tactics.
I've watched the Unbeaten DVD a couldn't tell you how many times, so the difference in the goal scoring movements are very obvious to me.