Arsenal (H) | Post Match Thread

Just goes to show the level of detail we play with. When you watch Stones’ goal, it looks like Ben White has had a mare with him being deeper than the rest of Arsenal’s defensive line, but then you have Stones here revealing that they’d worked in training on Bernardo running over the ball and then Akanji disrupting their defensive line to push a player back, creating space for the others in the centre to be free and onside. It looks on the face of it like we’d just profited from a lapse in concentration and that Stones should have read the line better and not gone too soon, but it’s actually all planned and executed to perfection. Stones intentionally stepped deeper than the line, trusting that Akanji would ruffle some feathers behind him. And he did.

 
Tricky_Trev said:
Just goes to show the level of detail we play with. When you watch Stones’ goal, it looks like Ben White has had a mare with him being deeper than the rest of Arsenal’s defensive line, but then you have Stones here revealing that they’d worked in training on Bernardo running over the ball and then Akanji disrupting their defensive line to push a player back, creating space for the others in the centre to be free and onside. It looks on the face of it like we’d just profited from a lapse in concentration and that Stones should have read the line better and not gone too soon, but it’s actually all planned and executed to perfection. Stones intentionally stepped deeper than the line, trusting that Akanji would ruffle some feathers behind him. And he did.

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It is interesting isn't it - caused me to go back and have another look. Actually Ben White does have a mare with it, as presumably he should have kept his nerve like the rest of Arsenal's defence did and let Akanji run past him - had he done so Stones was well offside, but City have gambled that at least one defender will drop with Akanji and create the opportunity. It's all about holding your nerve and trusting one another - White doesn't and that is the result.
 
TheThirdDeano said:
It was obviously a penalty for fuck sake
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That happens anywhere on the pitch and it is a foul every single time. I have been sent off in a U20 game for putting in a similar challenge (as last man in stoppage when we were drawing 2-2 in a tournament; we went on to win on penalties but lose the next game I couldn’t play in). If you are playing the man not the ball, as Partey obvious is, with only Kev actually playing the ball, it is always a foul and usually a yellow, as well.
 
SebastianBlue said:
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That happens anywhere on the pitch and it is a foul every single time. I have been sent off in a U20 game for putting in a similar challenge (as last man in stoppage when we were drawing 2-2 in a tournament; we went on to win on penalties but lose the next game I couldn’t play in). If you are playing the man not the ball, as Partey obvious is, with only Kev actually playing the ball, it is always a foul and usually a yellow, as well.
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Looking at the angle from the back, the way he goes in with his foot raised, he’s lucky he didn’t make proper contact
 
GornikDaze said:
Looking at the angle from the back, the way he goes in with his foot raised, he’s lucky he didn’t make proper contact
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He absolutely catches Kev’s plant leg with his studs just before Kev kicks him (and then body checks Kev in to the air for good measure).

It is a bad challenge in pretty much every conceivable way.


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