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The team has some serious fitness issues. In Emery's first few months, he tried playing the high intensity game too but the players were not fit enough to deliver all through 90 minutes. For those who remember, in those early months, we played only half of 90 minutes - the second half. First half, the opposition walked all over us and sometimes scored a goal or two. Second half, we play our game and win/draw the game. Looks like the current team will continue with that but this time in the reverse i.e. play well first half, hope to score a goal or two and defend in second half and hope to counter.
Not sure how we will sort this out now. I remember Emery's first pre-season, they had this massive fitness workouts but that didn't seem to help. Will like to see how Arteta solves this problem when he has his first pre-season.
Liverpool had similar problems under Klopp at the start where they pressed and pressed and then ultimately ran out of steam.
Now they seem to press but in a much more controlled way for different periods of time in the game. Its maybe why they have been so good and haven't looked leggy despite the number of games.
Hopefully rather than going one half all guns blazing and the second half nothing if we can control the pressing to some in first half and second we might see further improvement.