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Be like Arteta plan na to rest Saka and use Nwaneri for epl game. Nwa needs ro step up abeg. He needs to.

I however expect Madrid to focus on Saka. He's the foundation of that 3-0 loss. 😂
They might want to double up on him and while that may be easier for mendy to do, it will just change focus on Trossard and MLS.

What if it's a trap set by these white experimenters? Just like the Container that fell in Jaimaca last week full of frozen foods?

Looks like West Africa is undergoing a phase where top class midfielders are on the low, or waning.
The quality the 2008 and 2013 AFCON had on display.....

You have to pity our midfield issues in GWG.


Partey for Ghana alone and how he plays..... We have not a replica.

The intensity of the 2nd half is what we need to bring. Individual duels is their forte. But off the ball, they're Terrible.

The only issue now is all those chances Mbappe got in the 1st half and he didn't bury, if he sees such slip up at Bernabeu, na brace o. We need to work on that. It was good seeing Kiwior grow into marking him out. I hope that gingers him to do way way more out next week

Truth is Arteta is not one to underrate the power of Perez or Madrid at this stage. He will go to Santiago and repeat what he did again. He has the firepower to cause problems for that backline.

Shegzdave:
I don’t mind this lineup cause we shouldn’t take any chances against them

We should play our normal game at Bernabeu. Any switch off mode should not ne applied. Silence the Bernabeu the way Torres silenced Barca that year.... They're desperate and will go all out. I think this is where the lethal pace of Martinelli comes in.

Shegzdave:
Gave an assist also

Yeah.
Next leg for Nwaneri.

They're exposed as no Camavinga this time.

Declan Rice: “Martin [Ødegaard] said to cross, and I said to Bukayo [Saka], ‘it doesn’t make sense to cross!’ - and he said ‘if you feel it, hit it’!” 🤣


No wonder his mentality is an indirect one always. He go see chance to shoot and he will rather pass sideways. Would have denied us 2 sweet record breaking hits because of such a mentality.

Nwaneri no even enter sha😂😂😂😂

MLS had 57passes

21/57 were into the final 3rd.
Was he the LB tonight? Lol

iamoyindamola:
Hol up camavinga got a red
He will miss the second leg before his red though

He kicked the ball away after ref blow stop. Don Carlo was pissed but that also summed up the frustration of all of them tonight. Don didn't have any other solution to stop us. He will serve the red as one

iamoyindamola:
You no know

I was hoping he'll be back before Liverpool tie.

11 shots on target out of 12.


This is an Arteta Era all high!!

Madrid with 3/8. Their lowest in a decade

Commentator said Gabu is out for the season. Omo

I dey here dey reason say na hamstring of 3 weeks

toluxe0075:
Saka seem injured o💔

atall. Just 2nd leg precautions

We decided to venture centrally and began to register freekicks all rounda from which Rice scored 2.


Partey was in control. We disconnected the madrid attack so much all of them were quiet till the last minute. Phewww.


Henry talked about belief and attitude. We brought the right intensity this 2nd half and down to the last second, we were still pressuring their backline. They got fed up.


Saka... I hope he wakes up at the Santiago sha.
Kiwior most impressive ucl game for Arsenal.
Martinelli running back to defend on both wings really helped alot.
Odegaard.... Aside pressing sha....
MLS.... Fearless and a gem
Tierney reliable. Staying fit for a time like this when dia Tomiyasu dey luth is exciting.


If we tactically frustrate them again, we sre through. I don't want to now imagine us bottling it there.

Roland17:
That finish by Merino, my goodness!

Merino's touch is his biggest quality that Kai doesn't have. It will be great of he can improve in other aspects. But that was a mad finish. Ramsey-ic

iamoyindamola:
Unbelievable

Cams caught Jover telling Rice to curl it and he did that. This man. As for me, i hope we finally have a freekick taker? Add a new buy with such skill and we good to go.

iamoyindamola:
We cried for set piece miracle we got one
Roberto Carlos style

See ehn..... Immmm happy for the timeliness of this curler. See how it shocked the entire Madrid contingent. They probably know we lack that skillset.

The last person to score that kine curler for Arsenal should be Mezut Ozil if I'm not mistaken

daveP:
They were indeed. I want Rice to gbera this 2nd half. They're trying hard to clog shot space but we still seeing.

And he has gbera-ed

Roland17:
Partey and Saka were exceptional in the first. A CF would have gotten to the end of one of those cutbacks from Saka because they were open.

They were indeed. I want Rice to gbera this 2nd half. They're trying hard to clog shot space but we still seeing.

Roland17:
This game badly needs an out and out CF. The positioning of our forward players has been poor.

A tall one too cos if na Shortie, he wont win those aerial duels. I expect a shot from MLS soon. Partey seems the controller and hard to mark. If Merino get sense, he should be timing runs after signaling Partey. That's Partey's specialty abeg. Run behind, nod back to incoming and boom.....

9 times for a cross but hesitation takes over. Finally one he doesn't hesitate and 2 shots come out of that. Maybe the aerial is key to scoring this team. A 9 for don bury 2 this 1st half. Anyways, a much better last 7mins.

5 shots 4 on target compared to 2 in 6 for Madrid.

The fast pace of Madrid front 3 though. The slip ups dey vex. Make we dey careful sha.

Odegaard should be at the cutback spo. Guy go pass kon pause dey watch Saka enter box. Guy run behind abeg. See how Madrid defense dey watch o

Odegaard needs to be quick with the pass near box 18 abeg. If na 40years old modric he for don release ball teytey. Saka should run into the box. It is not a must he gets touchline pass abeg.

Roland17:
Different players, era, styles and approach.

A better question is, can Arteta be the difference between winning and losing this game? We need a pragmatic approach to this game.

We can not be out of this round after today’s game, that is the most important thing to me.

Someone said the game dey somehow.

If madrid win, noise won't be much as they're way way ahead of us all rounder.

But if we win, the noise and swear on madrid will last till the end of the year.

Lol.

I hope the man doesn't bring the overthinking here. This game might be down to taking chances and burying it. Saka don learn from that bayern mistake that year. But i am hoping on the middle, bringing their A game with GA.


Annoying that everyone in Madrid Middle just dey score while same can't be said for ours enough to know they will do it

Spy360:
4-4-2 is Wenger's most successful tactics. He began to crumble when he started fantacising the 4-3-3 and his failures began.

Arteta himself started with a 5-2-3 formation that won the FA Cup but his 4-3-3 formation has propelled him to being one of the best coaches in the country despite having no titles to show for it. One common thing with both formations is that he does play a striker as CF, his strikers are the inverted wingers. So it's more like a 4-4-2 with the CF dropping deeper and allowing the inverted fullbacks into scoring positions.


..... Martinelli...... Saka..........
Rice......... Merino...... Odegaard
................ Partey.................
Skelly.. Kiwior... Saliba.. Timber

The beauty with Arteta's tactics is that formation can switch into any shape at any time.

I wish he can get his type of players because it would really make us hard to beat

The reason i brought is here is cos of how the shape can transform as each 10mins go by. Not cos that will be the shape all 90. That's what you just explained now.


For what it's worth, i hope they bring an intensity never seen before.

iamoyindamola:
lol madrid has been using 3 forwards since cr7, i don't understand the slight adjuted to accommodate mbappe

I'm saying that old madrid formation now has Mbappe even if he runs down the wing even when winger dey. He doesn't both simultaneously if you watch him.

Shegzdave:
Dave no go kee Me
Immediately I saw that, I just burst out laughing

that formation is still very much in vogue in europe na. Why you bursting laff? 🤣

iamoyindamola:
Is Madrid using same formation 🤣🤣

Slightly adjusted to make Mbappe more central, yeah

Can Arteta just repeat this formation?