Quote from: EL MOHA on Today at 10:59:41 PM

Quote from: Dailyscript on Today at 10:02:25 PM

What I noticed at the end of the games was that Atlanta was so observant about a set piece for Arsenal. They rather prefer the ball to go to the throwing side than being a corner. It was just 2/2 corners for both teams before the game ended and the reason for Atlanta being watched over those corners is that Arsenal has created more goal chances during corners. And if they have multiple corners they may end up scoring one and then winning the game. To be honest Atlanta's coach is a good coach and his boys played against Arsenal so well that they deserve more than the draw they got in the game. The penalty would have sealed everything if they had scored it.

Atlanta were just playing base on instructions we all know how dangerous Arsenal as a Club are when it comes to set pieces that will lead to an air attack. Arsenal have players who are very good in the air and this has been one of their routes to getting goals. Last season Arsenal defender Gabriel had 6 goals with which all of them were headed goals from set pieces. Yesterday Atlanta knew Arsenal wanted to use it against them and stopped them from doing, if I can remember the only corner against Tottenham in the league was the goal they got to score and win the match so maybe most teams are actually studying how they arsenal had deployed method to get goals off opponents.

Overall yesterday Arsenal were simply just poor, I think Arteta needs to find solutions to the lack of creativity coming from the midfield in the absence of Their club captain. Against Manchester city it will be very risky to try out a new formation yeh so they could stick to the Tottenham formation for now but if it doesn’t work again like the previous too matches then it will be worth for Arteta to actually experiment the young man Ethan Nweri who is their only creative midfielder left

Arsenal couldn't do much when facing a team with a good defense, even they were lucky enough to bring home 1 point. Arsenal controlled the game in a quarter of the match, but they slowly lost their balance, it was very clear. Even in terms of statistics Atalanta is superior in various aspects, Arteta squad really lost creativity when their key players were absent. As we all know that Atalanta is a surprising team, they are the champions of the Europa League last season, clearly they are not easy to beat by Arsenal.

Clearly the draw is a bad capital to face Man City in the Premier League, Arteta is really faced with a very tough challenge. If Arteta had recruited a sharper number 9 player in the transfer window yesterday, maybe they would have easily won every match. Their next opponent in the Champions League is even more difficult to beat, because PSG also has a fairly good squad depth. In the end, Arsenal journey was very steep, lucky if they could get through this difficult period undefeated.