Daniel Taylor on Twitter: "Been told today Arsenal devoted their training session yesterday to playing with a pressing 'block' high up the pitch."
Posted Feb 23, 2016, 6:28 PM UTC
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Well, no harm in trying I guess. If we park the bus it'll just be death by a thousand cuts anyway. I'd rather go out in a blaze of glory than wait for the inevitable.
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Yeah. Sitting back and giving MSN the initiative seems like a bad idea.
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Yea, it'll be more S 'N M because we love us a beating
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Cannot give them the away goal. Any statement involving us being "high up the pitch" without the ball against Barca is nightmare inducing. I don't think we're as tight a unit to be able to pull it off.
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We cannot afford to not win either. We don't win tonight we have no chance of going through
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I think a 0-0 gives us a chance tbh.
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Have you seen Barcelona at home, at all?
No chance is a an overstatement because nothing is impossible, but Barcelona have been far poorer away than at home (despite winning in both type of matches). At home they've been completely dominant.
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They're dominant now too, what are they going to do.. have more of the ball? 0-0 here means that 1-1, 2-2 still gets us through and this is the Champions League, we're definitely in it if it's 0-0 tonight.
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Listened to the Guardian Football weekly podcast today and the Spanish football reporter Sid Lowe said that teams that did this have had the best performances against Barca this season. Here's hoping! I think we would all like to sit deep and counter but I just don't see us surviving like that for 90 minutes.
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I heard that too, and it [seems that some at r/barca feel the same way](https://www.reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/473czb/directness_and_defending/); the few times we've used a high press this season it's gone quite well so hopefully our bravery will be rewarded.
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I hope so! I don't think this will mean we will play a high line either just press their midfield and defence when they have the ball instead of giving them all the time in the world.
I saw some of their last game and they struggle a lot with crosses long balls so hopefully Giroud will have some luck too.
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That was my thought too, the front 3/4 pressing when we lose possession with the others sitting back a bit if Barca can break through the pressure.
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Lol pressing high and mertesacker is in the team? Recipe for disaster there
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We're not pressing high, we're pressing in blocks higher up the pitch. Our back 4 will be rather deep today. It'll be similar to against Bayern
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Shhh let him circlejerk with the rest of them.
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LOL, why haven't they been doing this all along for games where they decide countering is the way to play?
Hopefully he starts Welbeck or Joel on the right to provide some remote protection on our left side.
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For the people on Twitter moaning that they've given the game away: if Enrique didn't know we were going to press to start the game, then I'm not sure he should be allowed in the stadium let alone as coach
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Atleast we are gonna try before it all falls apart
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Pls work.
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I'm not confident about a high press against NSM...
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As long as it's selective it could be good.
Snap press a few times, grab one goal from it, then batten down the hatches and hit them on da counter. Would be nice.
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I give it 20 minutes before we retreat to the edge of the box and hope they make a mistake under minimal pressure
But by then we're up three
It worked against Man U!
Although that was Man U...
Lads, it's United