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We’ve already picked up Gauci but Chevalier has impressed in both legs. Can’t see him staying at Lille long.
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It doesn’t break the rule. But Emi knew what he was doing when he took the ball. I’m sure he studied the rule and you can even see in the video, he’s sort of judging if he can get away with it and then does a quick sprint to get to the ball first. Set the tone, disrupted the routine, game over.
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Not sure Andre will ever want to be in the same room as Emi again.
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Yes and notice how Emi throws the ball to Luiz for the last kick to make sure Chevalier doesn’t try anything. In fact, Chevalier doesn’t go for any intimidation tactics and I thought our players looked relatively comfortable taking their kicks as a result. Whereas Emi always had something going on.
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To be fair, it was 2 and a half minutes from the time he walked up to the time the ref blew for him to take it. Thats an insane amount of time. Great mental fortitude to not shank it to row z.
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From an Arsenal fan, but a good thread on the psychology he imposes. Goes and grabs the ball before Bentaleb. Skating on thin ice there with the new rules but it’s not “intimidating” and even he pretends that he’s just checking the ball but has already done the job - Bentaleb is rattled. Also think Unai and co. did their homework and told all their players to take a second to compose themselves. Statistically, there’s a higher conversion rate if you take a few seconds for the penalty as opposed to firing away as soon as the ref blows the whistle. All our players, except Tielemans funnily enough, did that last night. The exceptions? Bentaleb and Andre.
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Penalty in the 3rd critical spot was definitely not what I expected but to be fair, he’s always had good technique. It’s the decision making that’s questionable.
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Wins coin toss to go first - Best taker last - World’s #1 -
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Very concrete pattern in the build up - Lille want Konsa and Cash to have the ball
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Fonseca has done a little more homework than Arteta - constantly funneling us towards our weaker right hand side build up. This is where Konsa's lack of distribution hurts us.
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Against a lot of odds - I think they might actually pass aid for Ukraine.
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Enrique said it in the lead up to PSG/Barcelona but I think Unai have also said something along the same sentiments and what you said above. Pressure is not winning against Lille or Bournemouth. Pressure is going to work 7 days a week and not having to get sick to make sure you don't miss any days. Lille, Bournemouth, a trophy, UCL - all of this is just opportunity and one I think Unai and the boys will rise to meet.
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But will he turn words into action?
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There are lots of positives to this: No longer need to root for Arsenal or City or Liverpool Everyone knows the score, no hesitation needed. We will have to win and get to 72 most likely City and Arsenal can turn all their focus on thrashing Spurs No asterisk on getting UCL. Will be of our own accord
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It helps though, if you have KDB.
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The thing is that in the big matchups between Arsenal/City/Liverpool - the first two have opted to make the game boring as possible to make sure neither side gets a win to pull away from the table. This does not work in the UCL where you have to try and win! All the time, City and Arsenal lack the players and the strategem to push forward quickly when the time comes and instead let the opponent sit deeper and deeper in the box. That might work against the Burnleys and Lowtons of the world but not Bayern and Madrid. Then you see how much damage Bayern or Madrid can do with 3/4 passes and some special players running quickly with the ball.
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They can still come back - but both this Arsenal and City match is the same repudiation of the systems Pep and Arteta have created. It's all well good until you got a few players that can dribble and attack. In their pursuit of dominating possession, they have dampened the 1v1 creativity of special dribblers. That's why I appreciate Unai, no matter where he takes us, as he understands that you've got to give some of these Rogers/JJ/Bailey types a little bit of room to pick their spots to be creative instead of sticking them on the wing as expert ball recyclers.
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Among the records Unai has broken, Villa have now had the most times catching the opponent offside in a season in the premier league era with 147 and counting. The previous high was Liverpool with 144 in the 21-22 season.
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Relatively full strength from both City and Arsenal. Bayern may miss Gnabry but still a strong side. Arteta has put out his more defensive lineup on paper, certainly more respectful of Bayern than they were us. Same thing with Pep. May surprise us with two low scoring matches after yesterday's pandomonium.
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Yeah, that's no joke lineup. Maybe if we had a cupcake path in the knockouts, it would lose a bit of luster, but we will most likely be taking the hardest route through.
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Yeah I agree - I just find it odd that the discussion has somehow taken the vein of one or the other when the most probable outcome will be both!
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UECL trophy and UCL qualification aren't mutually exclusive. We're on the 2nd leg of the QF, so it's a completely different scenario than MON sending the kids out. UCL qualification is undoubtedly good for the future, but a trophy will be remembered forever. We could do with both. Counterpoint, SHA won a trophy and are about to be relegated to League One so winning a trophy isn't the end all either.
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It's an interesting contradiction for the GOP because no matter what, there's a strong contingent of warhawks and national defense types. With the resignations bringing the majority to a razor thin amount, it would only take a few defections for the discharge petition to go through. I think most of them are doing a wait and see approach with MAGA-Mike to see if the separate Ukraine funding bill is a trap or actually a good faith effort to pass it. It's genuinely hard to tell with the margins as thin as it is, but not only on the GOP side. Could see a few Dems taking umbridge with a combined discharge petition that would include Israel as well.
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City and Villa to the finals…we win our end but coefficient FC have bottled it so much that City have to win as Villa have dropped to 5th. 94’ City tied with PSG, KDB crosses and at the back post, Grealish! Get sick, celebrate Bookmark this.
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