NZgunner
Active Member
Country: New Zealand
The last two performances have been incredibly encouraging, but for Leno's unfortunate error we could easily have won both games.
There were glimpses of it against Chelsea until we ran out of steam, but today I finally saw an Arsenal team that had some structure that I could recognise and an actual game plan.
There was actually some transitional play, the Xhaka/Torreira pairing were there in both defence and attack - I've been a harsh critic but I now want Xhaka to stay in Jan because I believe Arteta has a vision that could actually work with the current squad.
But most of all I loved seeing the manager and player reactions - Arteta already seems to have a personal relationship with each player and they seem to respond to him.
There were glimpses of it against Chelsea until we ran out of steam, but today I finally saw an Arsenal team that had some structure that I could recognise and an actual game plan.
There was actually some transitional play, the Xhaka/Torreira pairing were there in both defence and attack - I've been a harsh critic but I now want Xhaka to stay in Jan because I believe Arteta has a vision that could actually work with the current squad.
But most of all I loved seeing the manager and player reactions - Arteta already seems to have a personal relationship with each player and they seem to respond to him.