People don't get it. The Arteta project is a do-or-die affair for Arsenal.
Positional play is the present and future of football and the best clubs in the world are lead by coaches dedicated to the ideas of positional play.
Arsenal are determined to join them.
(KRAKEN THREAD)
Positional play is the present and future of football and the best clubs in the world are lead by coaches dedicated to the ideas of positional play.
Arsenal are determined to join them.
(KRAKEN THREAD)
Juego De Posicion is a philosophy of play which seeks to create maximum returns with minimal risk.
Pep Guardiola has had the best defensive record of all managers across the past 12 seasons in the European top 5 leagues. His teams also score a lot.
How does he do it?
Pep Guardiola has had the best defensive record of all managers across the past 12 seasons in the European top 5 leagues. His teams also score a lot.
How does he do it?
It is an approach that seeks to generate superiorities against the opposition across all phases of play.
These 'superiorities' are carefully constructed to provide adequate protection in all phases, such that you are defending while attacking and vice versa.
These 'superiorities' are carefully constructed to provide adequate protection in all phases, such that you are defending while attacking and vice versa.
This requires careful positioning of players and scheming of ball patterns. Everything is planned for. You always know what to do.
This does not mean that you play robotic football. Far be it from us. It only means that you have a clear identity and clear patterns of play.
This does not mean that you play robotic football. Far be it from us. It only means that you have a clear identity and clear patterns of play.
Players are still required to find solutions for themselves, especially in the final third.
However, what positional play does is to try and add an element of predictability to an unpredictable game, to control the events, the moments, to reduce it to a memory.
However, what positional play does is to try and add an element of predictability to an unpredictable game, to control the events, the moments, to reduce it to a memory.
Every coach wants to make sure that their team has the best chance of winning and the only way you can do that is to force predictable situations to occur which you have already prepared for 10 times.
You turn the game into a simulation and your players into experts of it.
You turn the game into a simulation and your players into experts of it.
You don't just attack, you need to defend, too. So this scheming always involves protecting your own ass if you happen to lose the ball. This is why a certain number of players always occupy a certain area of space at a time with Pep Guardiola or any positional play manager.
What juego de posicion does is that it breaks down possession play into patterns that ensures that the ball gets to certain areas under certain conditions, which greatly and safely increases your likelihood of scoring without conceding.
When juego de posicion is well
When juego de posicion is well
implemented tactically and well-interpreted by the players on the pitch, it can lead to unrivalled and unstoppable dominance.
The last 3 Champions Leagues have been won by Juego De Posicion coaches.
The last 5 Premier League titles have been won by Juego De Posicion football.
The last 3 Champions Leagues have been won by Juego De Posicion coaches.
The last 5 Premier League titles have been won by Juego De Posicion football.
People say it is robotic when the players have not understood the assignment very well yet. They only say it is boring because players are not yet assured about the way they play.
But the moment a team gets it and plays with one mind, it produces amazing football like telepathy.
But the moment a team gets it and plays with one mind, it produces amazing football like telepathy.
Let's take an example of a famously 'robotic' team and look at what happens when the entire team plays on the same page, when it clicks and they 'get it'.
Arsenal in the Community Shield against Liverpool
Arsenal in the Community Shield against Liverpool
https://twitter.com/_halfspaces/status/1428002848596504580?s=19
This is from the FA Cup against Manchester City.
V Crystal Palace.
https://twitter.com/_halfspaces/status/1428002843269738498?s=19
V Crystal Palace.
https://twitter.com/_halfspaces/status/1428002830846201859?s=19
Robotic football is never the issue. The issue is:
—Can Arteta coach a competent positional play system (defined as one that has the potential to succeed against top teams as well as poor ones)?
—Has Arteta received the time and support necessary for this scheme?
—Can Arteta coach a competent positional play system (defined as one that has the potential to succeed against top teams as well as poor ones)?
—Has Arteta received the time and support necessary for this scheme?
Looking at Arteta's record against the Top 6 since he came in, it is clear that the system provides demonstrable winning competence and even dominance against top teams. Arteta's scheme has also smashed the worst teams in the league several times. Inconsistency is the issue.
Via analysis, Arteta's positional play system contains all the fundamental elements required, even when quality options are not on the pitch. This gives it crazy potential for success if quality is in place.
Arteta's system has 85-95 points/season potential if it clicks.
Arteta's system has 85-95 points/season potential if it clicks.
The question is the time, the learning and the material. Not the system. Never the system.
As demonstrated in an old thread of mine, other top coaches have received far more material support than Arteta had received prior to this window.
As demonstrated in an old thread of mine, other top coaches have received far more material support than Arteta had received prior to this window.
https://twitter.com/nonewthing/status/1427211600394604549?s=19
The Arsenal board have now expended plenty of material support to the Arteta Project. They see the potential. And they believe in it. I do, too.
The future is now here. This is it. We are now being remade in the image of Cryuff.
Consider the bad results growing pains.
The future is now here. This is it. We are now being remade in the image of Cryuff.
Consider the bad results growing pains.
The ultimate catcher is that once and if this project succeeds, it guarantees continued success FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
This is why Chelsea, Juventus, Arsenal, City, have all recently tried to commit themselves to Juego De Posicion football.
It requires full commitment to work.
This is why Chelsea, Juventus, Arsenal, City, have all recently tried to commit themselves to Juego De Posicion football.
It requires full commitment to work.
The entirety of Arsenal is being reoriented towards this style of play, from the players we buy to the training across Hale End.
Kevin Betsy has been hired for that purpose: to continue the Arteta Project at the u-23 level.
It is not a proposition; it's a revolution.
Kevin Betsy has been hired for that purpose: to continue the Arteta Project at the u-23 level.
It is not a proposition; it's a revolution.
In Kevin Betsy's first game in charge against West Ham, the Arsenal u-23s made 3 mistakes from playing out of the back and promptly conceded 3 goals. Self-inflicted defeat—a similar story with what is happening with the senior team.
However, this won't keep happening.
However, this won't keep happening.
Patterns will become instinct and soon, teams from Arsenal will become some of the most dominant in Europe, both at academy and senior level.
Once this dominance is achieved, it will be very difficult to reverse. Once JDP is in the blood, it becomes very hard to go back.
Once this dominance is achieved, it will be very difficult to reverse. Once JDP is in the blood, it becomes very hard to go back.
The success that a Juego De Posicion produces and provides is intoxicating. It is also a self-sustaining philosophy. It infects how a whole club sees football. It influences the coaches you hire. It influences the players you buy. It influences the culture of a club.
Every single player that graduates from Ajax academy or from La Masia are almost always instantly recognizable.
Whatever their flaws may be, they always seem to interpret space and the ball very well. They always look polished, accomplished, born with a certain clarity.
Whatever their flaws may be, they always seem to interpret space and the ball very well. They always look polished, accomplished, born with a certain clarity.
A positional play philosophy, once instituted top to bottom at a club, is the closest guarantee to continued success a club may have apart from the provision of resources.
And if a JDP club has resources, doomed be the competition.
Imagine Ajax but with the resources of Arsenal
And if a JDP club has resources, doomed be the competition.
Imagine Ajax but with the resources of Arsenal
The visionary clubs of RB Leipzig, RB Salzburg, Bayern Munich and Manchester City (led by Txiti Bergesterain and Pep Guardiola) have joined this future over the past few years.
Similar top-down restructuring is happening at Leeds, too.
This is what Arsenal are trying to join.
Similar top-down restructuring is happening at Leeds, too.
This is what Arsenal are trying to join.
Further reading on positional play by Rene Maric (@ReneMaric) who is the current assistant coach at Borrusia Dortmund, and the one person I'd pay to have a conversation with:
spielverlagerung.com/2014/11/26/jue…
spielverlagerung.com/2014/11/26/jue…
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