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Despite their two red cards and injury woes, Arsenal have come out of their tough 3 game period against Brighton, Tottenham and Manchester City looking stronger than ever and still within reach of the title race.
Recently though, Arteta has started to gain a reputation for playing defensive, stodgy football reminiscent of Jose Mourinho, as opposed to his earlier title of being the acolyte of Pep Guardiola.
So is Arteta closer to Mourinho or is he closer to Guardiola? Or are there various similarities and differences between the aformentioned managers and nuances in the development of Mikel Arteta’s tactical philosophy and strategy that would take JJ Bull and Jon Mackenzie around 25 minutes to explain to Joe Devine?
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00:00 Is Arteta more Mourinho than Guardiola?
00:16 Why is the comparison between Arteta and Mourinho being made?
01:45 Arteta and Mourinho | Similarities and Differences
06:35 How Mourinho became the “sit deep and counter” manager
08:20 How Mourinho and Arteta view the role of tactics
13:20 Sinkholes! | The Athletic FC Newsletter
14:02 Arteta and Guardiola | Similarities and Differences
18:04 How Arteta evolved | Historical Narrative
20:09 How players also affect the tactical style
22:25 Weaseling and the Dark Arts
23:27 The Mourinho comparison is actually a compliment
25:13 So, Arteta isn’t more like Mourinho than Guardiola, but the outcome of what he does sometimes can appear that way, and you could understand why an ordinary audience at home might make that comparison, even if in jest?
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One of one of Arteta’s biggest influences has to be Moyes. Moyes at Everton punched well above his weight and not necessarily playing beautifully all of the time.
Back in my day, he was Jonathan "Dog" 🐕 Mackenzie. 😢
JOSE MURINHO DEFFNSIVE MASTER CLASS TACTICS IS ANTI PEPS POSSESION GAME PLAN
RULE OF THUMB WHEN UR OPPONET IS PLAYING FAST AND ALWAYS WANT TO CONTROL THE GROOVE ,U COUNTER IT BUY PLAYING SLOW AND DISTRUPTOMG UR OPPONENT EMOTION WITH DARK ART
Sadly yes..
Nowadays, either you have a star studded overpowered squad like Pep's City or adapt to each opponent. Arteta knows with the current squad and injuries, his team is not capable of overpowering City, Bayern or Real Madrid easily, but can overpower most of the other teams if played well. So he tried to with and without ball depending on the opposition.
The same philosophy can be seen in his friend's last year team… Alonso's Leverkusen. Alonso picked some incredible players that were went unnoticed by big clubs like Grimaldo, but he not only created a very interesting Style with highly advanced attacking full backs, he also switched around his team and used off the ball tactics against Bayern and all last season.
That's the new ball. It's very hard to keep up with the bohemith of Players these Rich , giant clubs have. So instead of dreaming to match the strength physically, managers are thinking about sneaky workarounds to just get those points.
22:28 otherwise known as $#!1housing.
Shoutout Jon's "Democracia Corinthiana" sweater. If you know, you know
Arteta is the trying to copy Wengers early to mid 2000s teams that had everything strength power pace youth energy skills possession.
Wenger team knocked out Juventus Madrid in 2006 and nearly beat barca with 10 men
Pep has used his same tactics through his whole career,
1. Buy an elite squad.
2. Make sure refs are subdued and mailable to your team whims
3. Praise the other team when you win and Blame everyone when you lose and boycott the league.
Comparing to jose and pep where he didn't win anything except a fa cup and two bottle jobs
Bit harsh to say that Mourinho plays ‘bad football’ if I understand them correctly.
I can tell you for certain that when we (chelsea) had him, we thought it was very good football.
It’s very fun to win 😀
9 goals in three games , very Mourinho like 🤡
As an Arsenal fan, yes yes he is. Its dissapointing as its not nearly as exciting to watch as prime city or prime liverpool but cant argue with its efficacy i guess
Mix of both i think, we can play sublime football when we want, but also we are solid at the back and once we get a goal its done
Arsenal are a set piece side. Change my mind.
The dark arts!🤣
The fact it ended with only 1 yes or no question instead of 2 or 3 more about dark arts and weasels is kinda disapointing
He’s neither, both of them win leagues and Arteta never will 😂