Arsenal put in 46 crosses against Inter Milan with zero result

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·8 novembre 2024

Arsenal put in 46 crosses against Inter Milan with zero result

I was surprised we continued to swing in crosses at a very solid Inter backline on Wednesday night.

Off the back of the one nil loss to Inter on Wednesday night, there has understandably been mixed feelings about our performance. Some have viewed the loss as an improvement on our recent games performance-wise and some have disagreed.

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You can make arguments in favour of both perspectives but what was certain is that we lost. Though we did massively improve from the showing against Newcastle we still largely were guilty of being all too predictable in attack.

That has been our Achilles heel in recent times and has arguably been the sole culprit to blame for our poor form currently. Against Inter Milan we saw Arsenal replicating the type of football that was painstakingly a theme of our rot during the Covid pandemic a few years ago.

Arsenal swung in a whopping total of 46 crosses against Inter on the night, which is quite astonishing given we failed to profit from at least one. The crossing theme was reminiscent of a game against Tottenham Hotspur in December 2020 where we attempted almost an identical number of crosses, we had a total of 44 crosses that day in a match where we were haplessly devoid of ideas. On both occasions we got beat with cleansheets unsurprisingly, given how we kept trying to push through a cul-de-sac.

It was very surprising that we kept putting in crosses in against Inter given how good their backline is. They played with a back six at times, they ate up those crosses for fun but we persisted anyway in what would’ve been a frustrating watch for the gooners.

Perhaps it was rather forced given how we lacked a central figurehead in those pockets to really hurt the Inter backline, it was clearly obvious that it was the case given how better we were centrally when Nwnaneri came on.

Looking forward we can only take the positives from that loss heading into the Chelsea game, we’ll have Ødegaard back, and after that fairly improved showing against Inter we’ll hopefully translate it to a return to winning ways at the Stamford Bridge.

Thoughts, gooners?

BENJAMIN KENNETH.

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