Last week, I wrote a piece analysing the differences that are beginning to emerge between last season’s Arsenal compared to the current model. My conclusion was that, at this stage, Unai has taken care of a lot of the low hanging fruit- or the ‘quick wins’ in corporate parlance. The team runs faster and harder and now looks vaguely competent away from home. The bar was pretty low in both of these respects last season, but it is also clear that *something* is happening tactically, even if that something is not always simple to pin down. But that’s to be expected. My own expectation is that this will be a bit of a “sketch show” season for Arsenal, with ‘hits’ and ‘misses’...
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