Hi everyone,
This is a brief one, on an aspect of this Arsenal machinery in motion.
It's no news that they sit pretty at the peak of the EPL table with a good five point cushion over second placed(and defending Chmpions) Manchester City. I've become very vocal here for my inerrant calculative predictions about the Gunners that in August 2022,I posted here– GO AND SLEEP ARSENAL FAITHFULS, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IS SURE!. Oh people like Mr. @cryptoandcoffee were on me, saying I was only a day-dreamer, displaying poor knowledge. I had to make strenuous efforts to convince him to at least be ready to evaluate his position,later in the season, which he reluctantly accepted.
As the World cup approached, I announced that it gives Arsenal plenty of advantages over their top-end rivals, and so Arsenal should be title favourites. I came out with– RE:GO AND SLEEP ARSENAL FAITHFULS, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IS SURE!. Once again, people scoffed, blurting out– how's that possible? Today their mouth has been shut!
I think I've paid my dues on the Arsenal cause this season,so I won't be adding more on that today.
By the Way
It's such a machine Arteta is building, with a lot of automation therein. Basically surficially one is deceived that it's a 4-3-3 formation because, you see four defenders. Wait till the referee blows the whistle and a whole new ingenious set-up occurs.
You now notice it looks like two at the back when they advance with the ball. The two full-backs tuck in and join the midfield,causing an over-load there(a huge advantage). If the opposing team ever happens to hit back on a quick counter,they meet the defensive midfielder being the the centre man of a back three. Furthermore, the entire team is furious and unrelenting in their press that they suffocate teams on end.
Here we Go
My focus today is on the attacking players. The news, post-World Cup was Gabriel Jesus' injury and the naysayers mocking Arsenal because there was "no real replacement". I wasn't perturbed by their indiscretionary talks, I knew we had Nketiah and hasn't he proved me right? He has![Sorry I refuse that the question be rhetorical🙂]
Yet Arteta won't take a break and enjoy the success of the attacking unit that has raked in an impressive 40 goals, only bettered by Manchester City(45),with Arsenal having the most wins of any EPL team,this season. He has brought in a new coach to handle the attacking unit. The coach has thus being employed by Arsenal,as first reported by The Athletic and will resume this summer. His known name is, The Tekkers Guru.
He's real name is actually,Hussein Isa.
Being called "Tekkers guru" says a lot! Tekkers basically means TECHNIQUE.
So he's famed for being a guru or lord in things like football skills and free-kicks.
He played like Messi(with a Messi-like left foot) as a Central Attacking midfielder or Right Attacking midfielder, in his days as a player. He absolutely loved Messi and the vision a player like Isco had.
[ urm,those two names he has mentioned,oh my, tells me he has a proper head there]
Later he represented the English national Futsal team with aplomb–a good 28caps. Now you know that Futsal is about tight spaces.Very crucial detail for this Arsenal job.
He has done this type of coaching too,he's no newbie, with his work in his own academy and experiences in working alongside the likes of Messi and Hazard.
Well, he's also fondly known as the Messi body double,because frankly he does have a Messi-like stature and height(plus that left leg), so he has appeared as Messi, Aguero and even Eden Hazard in several commercials.🙂
The 34-year-old Tekkers Guru, retired early from professional football owing to injury and he's poised to add something significant to professional football in this his new appointment with Arsenal.
One can see Arteta is planning even for next season where teams might set up ultra-defensively to foil Arsenal's attack. You need a genius in tight spaces to show your attackers the way through.It's scary what Arteta is building o!👷♂️
Isa will be expected to develop Arsenal’s forward players by helping them to improve the most technical aspects of their game, such as their touch, shooting and heading in the final third.[All these, as if the attacking unit are not already at a very high level]
Apart from working with the first team, his expertise will not be given breathing space,as it were– he will work with top upcoming talents from the Academy.
By the way Captain Odegaard,however good he is at free kicks, will be like a mere toddler when this coach starts with him.
What Arteta is 👷♀️ building is scary indeed!
THIS IS ARSENAL!
cheerfully...