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when did AVB play to defensive central midfield players??? and when did he always leave our most creative passing players on the bench? can only assume you just mean Eric Lamela
otherwise he often played holtby or eriksen before injury. and Dembele or Paulhino with Sandro for the most part. then along with Sig/Townsend/Lennon/Lamela on the wings
thats 4 attacking players inc striker, one box to box and ONE defensive midfied player by my count. hardly set up to defend
We've played every single game this season with two CDM's and a no.10. We've never put our best passing players on the pitch together, it's been herd immunity to passing and movement. It takes a certain number of players on the same wavelength for a style of play to work. Arsenal set up to play Liverpool with Arteta, Ramsey, Carzola, Ozil and Rosicky. We set up with Sandro, Dembele, Paulinho, Lennon and Chadli. Every single player out of Arsenals midfield 5 was a better passer of the ball than the single best out of all 5 of ours. Every single one of our players was bigger and stronger than theirs apart from Lennon who instead is faster than any of theirs. They beat Liverpool 2-0. We got our arseholes split open with a solid 5-0 fucking at our home ground without ever having a shot on goal. Who's philosophy do you think is better?