This North London derby was played at Tottenham Hotspur's home ground, and Tottenham Hotspur lined up in a 4231, with defenders van der Ven, Romero, Davies, Porro, backs Højbjerg , Bentangcur, attacking midfielder Maddison, wings Kulusevski, Werner, and forwards Son
Arsenal 433, defenders Gabriel, Saliba, Tomoyasu, Ben White, midfielders Rice, Partey, Ødegaard, Trossard, Saka, Havertz.
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This game was still the same as the North London derby. At first, these two teams were attacking at a very fast pace. Tottenham kept trying to pound Arsenal's box from the wings. Arsenal didn't want to show weakness and tried to fight back, but Tottenham were very aggressive in the first 10 minutes.
But Arsenal's luck was about to run out as Arsenal hit a left corner with 14 minutes to go, Tottenham Hø was in front of the goal and jbjerg turned out to be a suicide urn to give Arsenal the lead on the first break.
In fact, there was a big surprise with this ball. Initially, Saka played a ball that was a flat flyer with an arc, very close to the baseline rather than the far corner. It was a quick punchy pass over the top and Højbjerg saw that he couldn't push the ball to the outside top for a rebound. All he could do was immediately push the ball out of bounds to avoid the Arsenal players behind him attacking. Surprisingly, as he tried to push the ball, Kenyo Tomiyasu was affecting his last outstretched position, which prevented him from fully pushing the ball out of the top center for the boundary. Instead, he evolved into a ball that grazed his head and rushed towards the goal, turning it into an own goal!
Tottenham fought back immediately after going behind and kept attacking from the flanks to create corners. Roma had an almost attacking attack that posed a huge threat to the Gunners' goals when he was the height of Arsenal
As Spurs kept attacking, the center backs gradually pushed forward. As a result, in the 26th minute, after Spurs entered the Arsenal box, Kulusevski and Maddison collided with an Arsenal player and both fell to the ground, but the referee did not blow for a 12-yard penalty. At this moment, the Gunners launched a counter-attack. After Saka fully accelerated, for example Havertz got the ball, Saka took the ball in front of him, he made a very nice stop, which gave him complete freedom of space to control the ball and keep his body balance.Davies tried to stop him with a high speed chase, but Saka was ready to dunk the ball after a left foot shot
After losing two goals, Tottenham began to feel the pressure of the attack, they imagined a start, but has proved that the backfield may not be able to intercept enough, so Tottenham seemed to tie their feet, the Gunners maintain the defensive position, which makes it difficult for the striker Sun Xing to receive the central pass, the Gunners lead two goals gradually become a defensive counter-attack to make the penalty area more dense, 31 minutes of injuries, Tottenham was forced to replace Johnson, the
The Gunners opened the scoring on 37 minutes with a left corner and Havertz made it a fatal 0-3 with an easy breakaway header from six yards.
From this goal, we can see the difference between Arsenal and Tottenham's set piece tactics. Before the corner kick came out, Tottenham's players stood evenly on the penalty line to form a defense, but the Gunners' side had five players standing at the far post, as if deliberately staying away from the center of the area, resulting in a complete lack of Gunners players from the center to the near post. It was a very extreme distribution of personnel, but Spurs didn't notice and continued with their original average position. Then, moments before the ball started, all five Gunners players rushed to the near-post position at the same time. der Van suddenly turned into Havertz's clinch, with Kenyo Tomiyasu in front and Havertz behind, and Rice seemed to have identified the situation that the ball was deliberately driven towards van. der Ven position.
Arsenal seem to be deliberately allowing Tottenham to stand in a good position first, letting them think they've taken an advantageous position and don't need to move, and then letting the players rush in at the last minute to close the gap between the Tottenham players.Rice is looking for a reaction der Ven here wrapped up by Kenyo Tomoyasu and Havertz before opening up into this position. It feels like Arsenal are using the Tottenham player's position as a marking point. If the Tottenham player doesn't move, that's a mark for Rice. Tottenham didn't seem to notice their design at all, I just felt that my players could block all the top ball positions by standing in a good position by Goma. There's a big difference in set piece play between the two teams
