What is it like to face this Arsenal team?

Coaches, analysts & players agreed to speak anonymously to The Athletic | Football to give a transparent account of what makes Arteta’s team so difficult to plan for and play against.

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Arsenal are hoping to make it 11 unbeaten in the Premier League.

With the most goals scored & fewest conceded, how do you plan to play against them? What makes them so difficult to stop and so difficult to attack?

Some responses from inside the game🔽

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Unai Emery is finally involved in a Premier League title bid at the Emirates - but not how he would have imagined when appointed Arsenal boss in 2018

This special - originally broadcast in December - dives deep into Emery's career and why things went wrong in north London

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'The first half was brutal. When we're struggling the staff can usually see solutions, but I remember being on the sideline finding it really difficult to think of one.'

Managers, players, coaches and analysts tell Jordan Campbell what it is really like to face Arsenal.

Arsenal are hoping to make it 11 unbeaten in the Premier League.

With the most goals scored & fewest conceded, how do you plan to play against them? What makes them so difficult to stop and so difficult to attack?

Some responses from inside the game🔽

theathletic.com/5395284/2024/0…

What is it like to face this Arsenal team?

Coaches, analysts & players agreed to speak anonymously to The Athletic | Football to give a transparent account of what makes Arteta’s team so difficult to plan for and play against.

theathletic.com/5395284/2024/0…

“By the time we got into the ground, other groups of lads were singing it. It happened in the space of a day.”

The Arsenal songbook is rapidly expanding.

Here’s a look at the ‘making of’ this new generation of fan chants.

For The Athletic | Football 🔴⚪️⬇️

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'On a Night Like This'
🎙️Sam Dean
🎙️Jordan Davies
🎙️Jordan Campbell
🎙️Kaya Kaynak

🎶The best Kylie Minogue debate ever
⚽️A shoot-out over the penalty calls & the performance v Bayern
🔙 Unai Emery returns to the Emirates on Sunday
❓Guess the Gooner
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#AVFC have made suggestions to the PL over scheduling for English clubs in Europe.1pm Sunday game vs Spurs having played Ajax 3 days before illustrative -Villa's view is Spurs should've been Monday instead. Lille have 7 days between 1st & 2nd leg - story:

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Cubarsi was born in January 2007. I repeat, January 2007. The boy is a joke.

Nine years ago, Sergio Canales' family feared his career would be over after a third ACL injury.

Tonight, he takes on Lionel Messi as part of a new chapter with CF Monterrey.

Jordan Campbell & Felipe Cárdenas on his recovery, sports psychology & dream return to the Spain national team.

Rangers right to be angered.

Games in the Highlands are on. Dundee clearly haven’t invested in the pitch to a Premiership level & it’s now impossible to fix before summer. Stricter protocols need to be put in place on this.

Imagine Rangers still had Europa League to play too.

The demise of Ajax has been slow and insidious, but it accelerated this week with the CEO suspended and the team humiliated 6-0.

The problems go way beyond a painful De Klassieker defeat to Feyenoord — the club is engulfed in uncertainty.

⬇️ Jacob Whitehead

Sergio Canales is 33 & the most expensive player in Mexican football history, but his career looked over in 2015 after a third ACL injury.

He began using a psychologist and aimed for a first Spain cap.

He won 11 after 2019. Tonight he faces Messi & co.

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A few refereeing incidents recently where I find myself baffled at the reasoning being applied by pundits and fans.

Feels like there has been so much tinkering of the rules that many have forgotten what the fundamental motivations behind offside, penalties & handball were.

Saka stuck his right leg out & didn’t naturally follow his touch around Neuer, so not a penalty.

This was also refreshingly common sense refereeing. Gabriel gets mixed up and stops the ball to take it himself but a penalty is for gaining an unfair advantage. It’s had no impact.

In the first 35 years of the European Cup, former communist Europe clubs accounted for 71 of the 280 QF places.

In the last 20 years of the Champions League’s 8x4 group stage format, only 12 of 105 clubs have made it to the last 16.

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In 1991, Red Star became the second club from communist Europe to win the European Cup. They remain the last.

Since then the idea that another team could do it has all but vanished.

How geopolitics, polarised leagues & financial gulfs contributed ⬇️

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That is sensational from Jesus. He thinks so quickly in those situations it's frightening.

Harry Kane spent three years at Arsenal as a kid, but he was not then the pick of the bunch.

Team-mates and coaches remember his Arsenal years, and shed light on the complexities of decision making in youth development.

Piece with gunnerblog ⤵️

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