Confession time: I’ve had this in my mind for long enough and current inactivity in Arsenal transfer speculations sector is driving me mad and delusional to explore territories unknown, so I seriously started to think and deliberately believe that Wenger’s Young Guns (WYG) should emulate Young Pep’s Brilliant Barca referred to as YPBB from hereafter.
Like any other Arsenal fan, I have a few ideas of my own of how we should play and ultimately…ahem ahem…who we should sign this summer etc. etc. What makes this analysis truly different from others is the application of a complicated scientific method known as COMPARISON... and some good old gut feeling.
Therefore, I am 98.53 percent sure, none of this is going to happen. If you are still interested… then it is one of those days!
On a serious note, my advocating of YPBB’s formation for WYG,s peaked because:
- YPBB won a treble (Surprise!)
- YPBB succeeded to beat English opposition that thrashed WYG very easily
- YPBB achieved all this by playing attractive football that everyone in England deemed unsuccessful because WYG play such a game, supposedly
- WYG failed to play the way they were supposed to play
- I wonder if Wenger knows?
- WYG personnel are too similar or even better than YPBB’s in their formation(Remember COMPARISON!)
On a more serious note:
- It is my gut feeling for god sake!
The point is we should play more of 4-3-3 and less of 4-5-1 or 4-4-2 or whatever.
The back four are… just back four so that has to do very little with formation expect we need a good one this summer. I won’t name names but HANGELAND… sorry couldn’t resist… is the best for the job. Anyway the rest of 6 players make the real difference and a big one.
What YPBB do is that they have a trio of midfielders and a trio of forwards. Among the midfielders two are attacking and one is defensive but all are technically very sound so everything revolves around them.
They simply pass the ball to each other endlessly whilst moving forward, the players around them create space for themselves, swapping positions, going forward, tracking back inside the diamond to kick an odd ball and ultimately space is created, ball is passed to a forward, one of the midfielder moves in the box too, two cheeky touches and the tired opposition picks the ball out of the net.
Arsenal used to do this in their glory days but with different formation which was due to the presence exceptionally cool Bergkamp and two natural wingers in Pires and Ljunberg. It can be argued that WYG failings might arise from deficiency of one or two quality bodies but it is more down to asking the same from a different set of players.
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