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Spy360:
How To Beat Villa

1. Your fullbacks must be fast. Villa plays wide and will stretch the opponent as wide as possible using pacing wingers and fullbacks in joint attacks.

2. You must be positionally disciplined. Villa thrives on chaos, allow the game to be open and suffer.

3. Your CF must be out wide not central. Villa plays advanced fullback positioning using a high defense line. The advanced fullback leaves a wide space to explore. If you focus on marking them you lose. Instead capitalise on their weakness Keep an extra man wide to overload that area of the pitch preferably the area where Diaby is.

mostob:
Aston Villa have won their last 14 Premier League home games in a row.

The last team to beat them at Villa Park was Arsenal.

The next team to visit Villa Park is Arsenal.
#arsenalfanaticsnews

mostob:
The bolded is the main point. Their strength may end up being their weakness in that match. I wan see how their FBs go advance with Martinelli and Saka on the wing. I'm particularly worried about Zinchenko...

yinkeys:

Don’t be overconfident
With the confidence and momentum gained from the Man City win
Aston Villa and their fans are planning to batter Arsenal on Saturday
@ The Villa Park

Bailey & Watkins are deadly

Looking like Liverpool will win their next 4 games to clinch the top position @ mid season

Spy360:
If they come all out it will be the best scenerio for Arsenal.

yinkeys:
Man City usually lose whenever they don’t start Rodri

mostob:
Fine boy? I remember telling someone that EPL strikers are in trouble as per say Kiwior resemble mafia leader. Not knowing the guy na mere turkey.

TradingGod:
Saliba na poster boy for 100m CB players

daveP:
Southie go still do his thing.

Shegzdave:
100m wey Dey perform more than expectation😄remain Southfate to give himself brain cause those boys are too good not to have any international trophy

yinkeys:

Don’t be overconfident
With the confidence and momentum gained from the Man City win
Aston Villa and their fans are planning to batter Arsenal on Saturday
@ The Villa Park

Bailey & Watkins are deadly

Looking like Liverpool will win their next 4 games to clinch the top position @ mid season

Spy360:
How To Beat Villa

1. Your fullbacks must be fast. Villa plays wide and will stretch the opponent as wide as possible using pacing wingers and fullbacks in joint attacks.

2. You must be positionally disciplined. Villa thrives on chaos, allow the game to be open and suffer.

3. Your CF must be out wide not central. Villa plays advanced fullback positioning using a high defense line. The advanced fullback leaves a wide space to explore. If you focus on marking them you lose. Instead capitalise on their weakness. Keep an extra man wide to overload that area of the pitch preferably the area where Diaby is.

mostob:
Aston Villa have won their last 14 Premier League home games in a row.

The last team to beat them at Villa Park was Arsenal.

The next team to visit Villa Park is Arsenal.
#arsenalfanaticsnews

Spy360:
How To Beat Villa

1. Your fullbacks must be fast. Villa plays wide and will stretch the opponent as wide as possible using pacing wingers and fullbacks in joint attacks.

2. You must be positionally disciplined. Villa thrives on chaos, allow the game to be open and suffer.

3. Your CF must be out wide not central. Villa plays advanced fullback positioning using a high defense line. The advanced fullback leaves a wide space to explore. If you focus on marking them you lose. Instead capitalise on their weakness. Keep an extra man wide to overload that area of the pitch preferably the area where Diaby is.

Roland17:
Excellent thoughts Nwannem, I thoroughly enjoyed reading.

I had to go back and watch them even closer and I realized Emery is implementing the bulk of the same thing he was trying with us as coach.

One of the tactic Emery utilizes is quick passing to transition from defense to attack, see their goal against City. They are not necessary trying to engage in midfield plays when they have possession because they want to be direct and transition into the final third of opponents half quickly.

They also use long balls to transition plays from defense to the attack, thus evading the need to involve the midfield, see my first point. I saw Emery utilize this particular tactic when he coached us. They have 2 pacy forwards who can make runs behind the defense to connect with those long balls from defense.

Long/ outside shots and the use of aerial balls to attack. For a team with small midfielders and attackers, they sure attack aerially. This is where I am most worried about because of Raya. We need Raya to control and dominate aerial play, otherwise we will get punished. The use of long shots is intentional because they have quick attackers who can attack any rebounds or spills from the goalkeeper.

Overall, this is going to be a tough game and I believe Emery still harbors some discontentment with how he was let go and would want to use that as motivation. I believe this team can give a professional and disciplined performance and get all 3 points.

Spy360:
Usually they allow their central players to remain defensive while the wide players create an overload in the opponent's half waiting to attack with speed.

The best way to deal with this is to keep your CF wide at the weakest most vulnerable point. G Jesus should join either Martinelli or Saka in the wide areas. This will force their formation to bend towards one side and create lots of openings on the other side.

These are just my thoughts. Every formation no matter how strong has a weakness, it's left for the opposing managers to figure it out.

Jodera:
E be like say na you go Siddon for dugout on Saturday since Arteta no go dey there

Jodera:
People say that guy get hard face but to me him get soft face. Not baby face per se, but this young fine man face wey no dey like stain himself.

I was really thinking he'll be a good deputy/competitor but I doubt. He hardly stands out at all even if we're dominating

Jodera:
hopefully, we do it again, then after that, they should continue the record.

But on a more serious note, that's an impressive stats from Aston Villa. 14 matches 100% win record. Wow!!

Spy360:
Absolutely. 💯
Emery also knows how to sit back and defend. I saw it in his Spanish teams especially in Europa League. I have never seen it this season though.

I don't know what Arteta will do to mitigate those runs. Neither White nor Zinchenko is fast. Do we keep a high line to match theirs or do we defend deep and catch them on the counter?

Raya has been a concern. That's why I said Ramsdale only needs to focus on the competition because I don't see Raya better than him.

mostob:
Arteta has been warned about his future behavior following his comments after the Newcastle game . Referee Stuart Attwell gave a written glowing reference on Mikel and his overall professionalism. Attwell has also stated that given reflection and hindsight he would have given a foul and/offside if he was sent to the monitor on the day . He also stated that at match speed he did not believe it was a foul.

Mikel has one more charge of bringing the game into dispute to be decided .

#arsenalfanaticsnews

toluxe0075:
English referees and their uselessness and stupid ego. They have only one job to do, yet they fail woefully at and expect everyone to keep quiet about it. Who knows what controversy they have for us again this weekend.