In the matches Arsenal played on the tour there was a visible change in the way they played.<\/p>\n
Arteta is highly competitive and sees friendlies as tests.<\/p>\n
The tempo of play so far seems to be higher, as does the intention to play the ball forward more quickly.<\/p>\n
There are also signs of how the team is going to progress – Ethan Nwaneri played the first two matches in the centre, a sign that that is where Arsenal see his future after a breakthrough season on the right.<\/p>\n
Against Newcastle, the direct style was on show, as well as an ability to deal with the physical challenge of Eddie Howe’s side.<\/p>\n
Arsenal have again made a point of recruiting players who are physical. Gyokeres, Christian Norgaard and Cristhian Mosquera are all strong players and Martin Zubimendi’s stature has been noticed by those around the club.<\/p>\n
They will play up to Gyokeres and make use of his imposing physical style, along with his ability to seemingly burst through centre-backs.<\/p>\n
There was an emphasis on goal threat – particularly against Newcastle. Arsenal were breaking lines quicker, using runs in behind the defence and getting shots off.<\/p>\n
This is all part of a plan to increase goal threats from every position and get the best out of Gyokeres’ key attributes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the matches Arsenal played on the tour there was a visible change in the way they played.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-312006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959383424332517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}