Brentford 0 Arsenal 3 – Bees Breakdown’s Tactical Breakdown

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   Rob on September 20, 2022 at 4:03 pm

   Decent analysis. Agreed that our long ball game quickly came unstuck, particularly after the first 5 mins when we seemed to lose purpose and played percentage long balls into an area rather than hitting our wing backs in areas not overloaded with Arsenal defenders. I noticed Arsenal quickly worked out that long diagonal to Rico by teaming up on him with Saka dropping deeper to help out Tierney. This after Gabriel fell to the floor feigning injury and gifted a 5 min team talk for Arteta.
   The closing down was lethargic and movement off the ball virtually non existent unlike the Gunners who were sharp in almost everything they did. They held onto the ball well, even when under pressure, whereas we couldn’t beat the first man. Beaten by the better side, 100%, and had we been at our best we may still have lost, however we made it easy for them

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