I'll bite because this is quite absurd. Pep sucks balls. Wenger balls.Wenger was great, but never tactical-wise. Couldn’t keep up with the complexity of modern tactics. He was better suits to be in higher management. Was a great manager but maybe he just need a tactical analyst around him.
I respect wenger for what I have praised him for as above. He is top class in them, but just not tactics. Tactics is always, and now a more and more important aspect of the game.
What Arteta has learned from wenger maybe was just man/resources management, motivating/communicating with players, develop a broader perspective, how to bring the club forward......things that in macro perspective, which are useful for building the future.
For this game, Arteta might have taken notes from Wenger on how to prepare team talks in a final, or how he can motivate his players to give them confidence.
At Man City, Arteta learned video/stats analysis, tactical knowledge, details on players’ position/movements, how to improve players methodically......extremely detailed micro perspective stuff that actually wins you football games. (This is why Guardiola and Klopp are regarded as two of the best tactician) (Tactics before the 2005-2010 era was much simpler compared to today’s tactics)
For this game, Arteta surely has taken out his notes, which he took from Guardiola on micro tactics, mathematical model on stats...........Analysis the opponent’s tactics, and find their weaknesses. To organise a press, to create overload on the pitch, to avoid being overload. If Chelsea gets a winger to the central area to outnumber our midfield, how do we deal with it? Or can we exploit the space being left on the wing? To study every single Chelsea players’ positioning and movement and instruct our players with detailed positioning and movement instructions. And if Chelsea targeted our weakness, how should we respond? If lampard makes a small tactical change, how do we counter that?..........
Klopp is OK. He in not a mastermind. He has a preferred tactic which is quite successful. He didnt develop it.
The tactics have not changed much. But we have tools that help us see what changes they make. You think they did notmake changes before? Who brought an end to the 4-4-2 in the PL?
Pep couldn't win the CL without Messi. He couldn't beat Liverpool when they spent a similar amount of money. He has KDB, 'the best player in the PL' . What has he won with him? Jackshit.
Pep never won **** with an average team. He took over a team and ethos developed by Rijkaard.
"What's important is finding a position that suits perfectly a player's qualities, a position where he can express his technical qualities and a position where you do not expose his flaws," said Wenger.
"The little details are very, very important, like preferential vision. Some players see more on the right and some see more on the left. If you see a player who passes to the right all the time because of that, then you put them on the left.
"Robert Pires is a good example. He has unbelievable preferential vision, so on the right he is a normal player but on the left he became a world-class player. On the left wing he saw everything, but on the right wing he saw nothing."