Arsenal must take a tip from Barcelona says Wilshere
If he had seen their woeful capitulation away to Real Sociedad on Saturday night, however, he may have thought twice about what he said. As reported by Arsenal.com, the thing Jack was talking about was the high pressing game that Barcelona and Bayern Munich have made so successful. When you are a team, like the Gunners, that bases a lot of their play on possession and passing, this high pressing makes it a real nightmare for the opposition. It stops them being able to hit you on the counter-attack and this is something that Arsenal have had problems with.
Wilshere said, “Even against Bayern, we were on top for the first 20 minutes and had a great chance to score but didn’t. So we wanted to continue that [against Sunderland], stay high and win the ball back. Once we won the ball back in their half, we always looked dangerous.
“We have some big games coming up, we [need to] continue with the same work ethic off the ball, try to win it back straight away and press them.
“You see the best teams in the world like Barcelona and Bayern Munich do that and we have to try to do that as well, because when we get in their half we have the players to hurt them.”
This tactic was, in my opinion, what turned Guardiola’s Barca from a really good team into arguably the best ever. They smashed Real Madrid to pieces in La Liga and won a treble among many other trophies. Could it be the way for Arsenal to put this tag of struggling in the big games behind us and win some silverware?
http://justarsenal.com/arsenal-must-take-a-tip-from-barcelona-says-wilshere/30733
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