Jury
A-M's drunk uncle
I'm sure I've read countless times that the he relied heavily on player intelligence and problem solving.. I think it was Keown or Adams who said Wenger wasn't big on tactics, and basically relied on the players to perform well enough to impose their quality and 'instructions', which was, as you say, passing and movement; just execute what they were best at. And they were the best at it. If that's all true I've no problem with that, because it worked a lot of the time. There were times when it looked to require for a bit more, though. That plan A was some plan A when it worked. We just lacked a bit of flexibility... or discipline? They had such big balls, they probably ignored him a lot of the time.I don't know the full complexity of his tactics but they were very idealistic in a sense that it required both players of supreme technical qualities and high football intelligence, while also seemingly requiring players of the Vieira ilk to problem solve themselves on the pitch for his philosophy to work to the extent it did from 97-05. Basically constant movement, third man runs, quick passing.
I think it's also fair to say that most of his tactics were assuming that his team would be on the front foot most of the time or at least that they'd get the ball quickly from the opposition and that we never really prepared for what happens when the opposition bypasses our press, hits us on the counter or has us penned in.