In the Premier League on Monday morning (18th), Arsenal won 1-0 against Ewarton, winning for the first time in six years at Gordon Park, and scoring 13 points in five matches to push Manchester City (15 points) to the top of the table. Faced with the iron barrel of the EWT defense, Arsenal entered the wave from a wonderful short corner organization, and the use of "wave clock" tactics to make the EWT defense slack, the corner of the wave was used for 26 seconds, the strange trick successfully for Arsenal to win all three points.
The last time Arsenal won against Ewarton was in 2017 under the coaching of Yun Ger. The Arsenal dominated the game with 76% possession and 11 corner kicks, but it was not easy to break through Ewarton's deadlocked defense. In the 69th minute, Arsenal's short corner kick from the right side of the field, after 6 first time passes, was scored by Lee Ando Duchate, which was also the only goal of the match.
After Lee Ando Dussaut scored, Adidas immediately celebrated the success of the tactics with the coaching staff one by one high-five, commented Gallieni Vili: "I am very interested in Arsenal's corner kick tactics this game, they are waiting for a long time every time, to the goal card is almost to be issued a yellow card, the home fans the most clamor for a moment to the first to start, and there are two to three corners are done in this way, with a 26-second to start a short corner is a lot of exaggeration, but the tactics are successful! But the tactic was successful."
Sources said Arsenal knew that Ewarton's backline was strong, so they switched to short corners to break up the crowd, and the "wave clock" tactic would make the defenders cool down while waiting, and lose their positions when they couldn't keep up with Arsenal's tempo after the wave started. Former Arsenal star Wojciech said: "Every time a corner kick is taken, I feel that the Ewarton players are caught in the way, and because of the distraction, they lose sight of the target, and I believe that there will be many teams that will follow this tactic of Ardidas in the future.
