Arsenal Vs City Pre Match Thread

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momo88 said:
This idea of going 442 and being battered doesn't make any sense ! it depends on the players you have and the way you are playing 2 upfront pressing you can play with 6 in the mid doesn't mean you are you going to win

As for Nasri well 3 games there in all of them he was a passenger

I agree with the first bit - people get far too hung up on the idea that you have to play with 3/5 in midfield any time you come up against a decent side. If Silva and Nasri play quite narrow, we often end up with four players in fairly central areas anyway. It does need the two strikers to press well, though.

That's also not to say that there aren't occasions where it might be advisable to play like that, e.g. against an obviously superior passing side like Bayern. Whether a match away at Arsenal falls into that category, I'm not sure.

I suppose it's perhaps inevitable that every time we lose a game while playing two up front, people will turn around and accuse Pellegrini of getting his tactics wrong/being tactically naive etc (often when it has more to do with individual players simply being well off the mark in terms of their performance). Yet I've seldom heard anyone say that we won a match precisely because we played two strikers, something which modern defences simply aren't that used to coping with, and which played a huge role in us twatting Utd, Arsenal, Spurs etc. last season.
 
sh249 said:
momo88 said:
This idea of going 442 and being battered doesn't make any sense ! it depends on the players you have and the way you are playing 2 upfront pressing you can play with 6 in the mid doesn't mean you are you going to win

As for Nasri well 3 games there in all of them he was a passenger

I agree with the first bit - people get far too hung up on the idea that you have to play with 3/5 in midfield any time you come up against a decent side. If Silva and Nasri play quite narrow, we often end up with four players in fairly central areas anyway. It does need the two strikers to press well, though.

That's also not to say that there aren't occasions where it might be advisable to play like that, e.g. against an obviously superior passing side like Bayern. Whether a match away at Arsenal falls into that category, I'm not sure.

I suppose it's perhaps inevitable that every time we lose a game while playing two up front, people will turn around and accuse Pellegrini of getting his tactics wrong/being tactically naive etc (often when it has more to do with individual players simply being well off the mark in terms of their performance). Yet I've seldom heard anyone say that we won a match precisely because we played two strikers, something which modern defences simply aren't that used to coping with, and which played a huge role in us twatting Utd, Arsenal, Spurs etc. last season.
Get what your saying but we had an in form toure and fernandinho in them games. And they both haven't got going this season. It's massive if we can get fernando fit for these 3 matches.
 
Im fully expecting a 1-1 maybe 2-2

Team.

.................................Hart...............................

Zab.............Demi...........Kompany......Clichy

................Fernando.......Fernandinho..........
................................Yaya................................

.........Navas..................................Silva..........

............................Aguero...............................
 
Not really confident for this, we usually show Arsenal too much respect and they raise their game to play us. Nasri and Toure need to play better than they usually do at the Emirates if we're to win.
 
Love_Each_Day said:
Not really confident for this, we usually show Arsenal too much respect and they raise their game to play us. Nasri and Toure need to play better than they usually do at the Emirates if we're to win.
Our last 6 games against Arsenal in all competitions:

1-1, 6-3, 0-2, 1-1, 0-1, 1-0

That's three wins, two draws and a loss.

So much for too much respect.
 
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