Arne Slot makes Arsenal title prediction ahead of Aston Villa vs Liverpool
‘You defend with 11 players, that’s the new reality in football, ideally you do it high up the pitch but if that’s not possible because the other team is having a good spell then you have to try to keep a clean sheet.
‘That’s where we have not been good enough this season, the moments when we have to defend, when we have a spell of 10, 15 minutes because it was not much longer than 10, 15 minutes aganst Chelsea, for the rest of the game I think we were the dominant team. But in that 10, 15, 20 minutes, I don’t know exactly, we conceded a goal and that’s also a worry. And then in the other minutes when we are the better team we struggle to either create enough chances from being the better team and if we have the chances we struggle to score the goals that we should score if you look at chances created, especially compared to last season because I don’t think we had much more chances than last season but last season we were much better to be able to convert the to goals.
‘Of course we can do something about that and we try to and you saw this because the second half [against Chelsea] was completely different than the first half. But it’s a situation where Chelsea had the ball, they could find their No.6s a lot, could go to the end phases of our attack, and the moment we won the ball back with 11 players behind the ball, we didn’t have the player to play into and come off.
‘It’s so normal if you watch the Premier League, you constantly see this everywhere. Because the league has become so strong that every team in any game has a spell in 10, 15 minute spell where one of the two teams is better. You can also look at it differently and say we’ve been, I don’t think I exaggerate, over 70, 80 per cent of the time of the games we’ve played we’ve been the better team. I think I saw a stat we’ve been the most in the final third of every team in the Premier League but that doesn’t lead to enough chances and we are aware of why that is.’
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