Welcome back, we'll get straight into the north London
Derby. So our
first question,
did we watch the title winners? This year?
Great question. That's the best question. You've asked all
season that
it looks that way. Yeah. I mean remarkable, you know that
Arsenal
and the position they're in its consistence of they've been
defensively.
You got to credit them. You know, I just think they've
been. They've been a breath of fresh air. You got to love.
I think you've got to love odegard. You got to love
Martinelli. You got to love soccer. There's
Saliba. There's so much to Like, about this Arsenal, all
of those attacking players, you mentioned, turn on the ball
like lightly or just pointed out, but
where did Arsenal win the game?
I mean, I would, first of all, I was surprised that Cecil you.
Implode, you know, you think about with, with Paris has his
experience
of playing against Ricky Wingers. I thought that
I thought soccer, was that
there was a difference in the game, sack of assessing Ian and
obviously session you. And I think he probably played
because he probably thought consolatory could match soccer
in terms of athleticism in speed,
but I just think,
Soccer, such a tricky player in a couple times. So senior got
caught out of position
and I think it was really show. It really showed up in this
game. Now, I thought Arsenal dominated down that side of
the field with sucker. I thought they got the balance right on
the field. And I thought that then
exposed or in session youngster, with just see,
the moment, there's sucker up against up, against Sesame on,
and by saker's, positioning and courteous position, and for
the most part, Martinelli's position. And I thought that
they made,
Sure
that they kept so many Spurs players pinned back in which
then gave the Arsenal Midfield to start with
numbers. Give them an opportunity to outnumber
Tottenham in the Midfield. But
as the game was going on, I thought the balance was that
good? And if you see just run this, this on slowly, we've
shown where been weight is at the moment, he's marking, he's
marking Sun but as Spurs
moved the ball, good pressure from Arsenal.
How quickly are still Change from soccer
Mark in there and decided is role needs to change. Ben wait
realizing his role needs to change odegard and party
realize and they've got to get across. It's no longer. I've
got my man and I've got my job
are still a rat eme unit at the moment, and the getting
the benefit. But because of that sucker up against session on
a quite often up against l'anglais. Really dominated
the side of the field.
Yeah. And again, you
week, we just highlight
that Sesame on the,
you know, if you're in a position, when you're playing
against somebody
like psycho there, you know you, if you had a friend, you
can be, no, you can't be that far away from one of the best
players in the league. And
there was, there was lots of moments in the game
where setting wasn't really in a position where he could
affect soccer. And I just think, you know, as a young
player you, you know, you got to know that you got to be in
there. And I just think if you give a kid like that space,
like Sakai, he he's going to he's going to punish you.
They always got players. This is what I was impressed. As me
for Arsenal, the amount of players and bodies there. Yeah,
they get forward and yet still be and so.
Just at the moment on the outside of the penalty area,
you know, always having overloads
but again we're probably
be looking at sack of this time,
Arsenal may be exposed. There's you,
there's your zinchenko got real. This set of backs,
they're getting pushed over to that side of the field. Which
means sack has got to come all the way back to Mark Sesame on.
But look how quickly,
when asked the when the ball back,
they can get sake into a
dangerous position like this
and it Thing is with wing bugs, you know? You
again if you're if you're
if you're assessing your on
here, I've played the you only go. If you have good position,
you know, Tom don't have good position so you can't really,
you can't really
so, where should it be stood?
What,
for me,
he's got it, he's got to be a bit further back there. Then
you can still see it. You know, he can make that run, he can
come outside. I always think you,
you hope for the best but you plan for the worst, he's not
planning, he's not planning for the worst that in credit
soccer, you know? He he
He understands this instantly and they're off and then
transition there and and that's all it is. And again it's just
a little bit of positioning
that for session. I love him. I think he's a fantastic player
but a guy like Sokka,
you know, he's I think I just think he's too smart
and and I think that's why I was surprised that
that Paris is shouldn't play with his experience.
Okay, look at look at the width from
from Arsenal.
Yeah, you got to catch is one that keeps all these Spurs
players back and if your line
isn't it, Aren't exactly as it should be. See, it's just comes
back a bit there.
Then the likes of Sukkot will take full advantage of it.
Yeah. And you know
like poppy likes his wing as high and wide but then he's off,
you know? And and again look at Cecily, you know, he's not in
there quick enough
Leon, you know, and obviously I think he gets into a good
position there. And the reason is and I like this,
what he's doing is, he doesn't want s to come inside, because
he's very left footed. And and I think he's doing the right
thing, I think he's showing him Onto that right hand side. I do
think maybe
Eric diet maybe could be in there, but it's I mean if we
run this little you wouldn't have thought
you wouldn't have thought they can score from there and I do
think it's a huge goalkeeping mistake from
from the res. But again,
a lot of it came from the fact that
Sesame on soccer
at the beginning of the game, I thought it was a bit of
a mismatch. I thought soccer was winning that quite comfortably.
Yeah. Clearly, you know, goalkeeping error
for that one, he's got to do much better, but here's one of
the one of the crucial moments Spurs
Decide to actually go along and you talk about the position of
Sesame on just want to highlight
Antonio Conte pointing, basically, at session. I'm
telling him
he wants some, he wants him up there and how that back for her
to really, and that's a good point because actually do
hardly on the other side is the same. You
know, they're almost a mirror image there.
The other guys, the wing backs are the outlet on. Do, you know
the way we know was son and cholesky? They're the ones that
come inside. And these guys provide the width, by
the problem is
If you turn over a ball the ball again
in transitions team like awesome,
they can punish you talk about turning over other ball. I want
you to keep your eye on
on Hoiberg as well because
when you're a Midfield and you're a Midfield to
thank you, pardon
even Midfield to
as we see with and Hoiberg and saw their you sort of have to,
you have to defend your line.
So you'd expect how you beg to deal with that saw to get up
there. But watch fiber comes all the way across. In a moment
into this position
and completely exposes his defense in the middle of
the pitch.
Once he's come all the way over.
You see that now suddenly straight away. Look
at space older God won't believe as look. Yeah, in that
position. You're right it, I mean it's a tiny thing, but
you're right. You never run across your teammate in
Midfield. You never run across in basic you stay in your
channel because if he was there,
If he was there, he would be able to affect this moment
again odigo. Once he sees that space, he just drops into
the and
an arse I want to get into this position, obviously, with, with
Sakura and with regard and Martinelli, I just think the,
I think the fabulous and in the end the goal comes from
the fact that
you know.
Okay, we're going to highlight the feather go comes from there
but again, even for Romero, I love Romeo
just come up and engage in, you know, he's not mocking him and
there's nobody behind him. So, I think at some point as much
as they drop off at some point, I do think I do think you need
to go engage and I just think that's too much. We know
against these top players, that's just too much distance,
too much space.
You give these guys time and space,
they'll punish you, the the tiny little details.
But it's amazing how they add up. Could the goalkeeper have
done any better
shot from distance? Yeah, I think a lot of Tottenham fans
would probably say
who go Lois, there's moments where he's absolutely world
class and there's moments where it like the first go I think
he's
he's been fabulous but obviously
he's a Being in, you know, I think they'll be, they'll be
looking at that, definitely. Well, let's take a look at
the difference in Toms performances. Last nine games.
First,
first half to second half in the first half, they've scored
only one goal in the second half. They've scored 14.
I mean, how do you explain that?
Well, I think they're quite a reactive side. You know, if we
think about Arsenal, the way they are, they're very much on
the front foot. They're very much the aggressor. I think
they sometimes talking to play not to not to lose and there's
a big difference. They don't play to win their play,
not to lose. And when they go go behind which they have done
on 12 occasions this season,
then they kick in, and then they start to play and then
they push and then they press. But for whatever reason they
really start the game is really slow. And I mean these stats,
you know, and these nine games in the first half
to the second half are
absolutely staggering one goal to 14. I mean that is
that's crazy and you know, in some of these games that
they've gone to goals behind. So well possession. Expect
a goals against shop face is a much difference against goal
conceded on the, you know, the stats.
How did they go about changing them?
For the positive. Well I think they just have to
you know be a bit more like awesome be a bit more
proactive, you know be positive and engage from the for
whistle. Don't wait to go or go down or or even to I think they
can be a little bit more positive in that sense.