Bodo/Glimt supervisor Kjetil Knutsen has praised Arsenal’s type of play however claims he has labored out their strategy and ‘isn't frightened’ about stopping the Gunners on Thursday evening.
Arsenal tackle the Norwegian facet on the Emirates of their second Europa League group stage match, with their conflict in opposition to PSV Eindhoven having been postponed following the demise of Queen Elizabeth II.
On the identical day Her Majesty handed away, Arsenal have been in Switzerland to face FC Zurich and Knutsen says he was blown away by the patterns of play he noticed from Mikel Arteta’s facet in that match.
Nevertheless, after watching extra of the Gunners, he believes he has labored out how one can cease them and says Tottenham took the utterly fallacious strategy once they set as much as counter within the north London derby.
Knutsen defined: ‘I began watching Arsenal in opposition to Zurich to analyse Zurich, however my focus and my gaze went in the direction of Arsenal as a result of I used to be considering, “What the hell are they really doing?!”
‘There are numerous rotations, so you need to decide them aside and see the place are the gamers who're pretty secure of their position and the place are the gamers who rotate lots.
‘It’s simply extraordinarily high-level, high-intensity soccer with extraordinarily high-level particular person qualities.’
He continued: ‘However while you get to see it over time, it’s not very sophisticated.
‘They've various rotations with the left-back and central midfielder, who has numerous freedom, nevertheless it’s lots much less on their proper facet.
‘However the way in which we defend, it doesn’t matter an excessive amount of [which opposition] gamers run the place as a result of we're very zone-orientated in the way in which we defend.
‘If we performed a man-to-man system we might have an enormous problem to face, however we're on the different finish of the dimensions [in terms of approach] in order that’s most likely the least of my worries.’
He added: ‘They assault with lots of people, they’re affected person after which all of a sudden they've that burst within the remaining third.
‘However in addition they depart area in behind them which we must exploit. We must be aggressive within the low block, excessive depth within the excessive press, and we must management the ball. Tottenham solely defended, Zurich solely defended – when you do that you simply gained’t stand an opportunity in opposition to them.’
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