Brentford midfielder Christian Norgaard admits they had to specifically deal with Arsenal’s best players to get a result when both clubs met yesterday.
The Bees were one of the clubs who have beaten top sides in this campaign and headed into the game with confidence and a game plan they believed would not fail.
Arsenal has so many talented players in their ranks now and some individual brilliance helps the team to achieve success on the pitch.
The Bees worked hard on stopping Mikel Arteta’s best men and it worked, with Norgaard revealing this after the game.
The Dane said to the Brentford website:
“Of course, it’s sticking to our defensive principles and forcing it outside and trying to double up.
“Especially on players like Martinelli and Saka, we know how good they are when they get the ball wide. And then see if we could shut down Odegaard as much as possible, he’s a fantastic player and he also showed today some of the skills that he has.
“But I think in general, we played a really good game and I know that sometimes from the outside it looks like we are under pressure the whole time, but we feel very comfortable and very solid in that low-block.”
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We should know Brentford was going to be a tough nut to crack, considering that they have beaten Liverpool and Manchester City this season.
That game is behind us now and we must avoid a defeat when we face Manchester City in our next match.
It will be one of the most important fixtures of the season and if we lose, our title challenge will be in jeopardy.
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We have been found out. It’s time for Arteta to earn his wages
We need to move the ball quicker and that’s a style we can play..
Am starting to feel we need a win soon and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility to get that on Wednesday..
Stop the inverted wingers and you stop Arsenal, exactly what was said and exactly what teams are trying to do. Like people have been saying, it is time for the manager to sort it before its too late.
Do you guys remember how many 1:0 wins arsenal had in the 1st half of the season?
The team cannot and will not be 100% all through the season. It’s not that opponents are just finding out how to stop arsenal, but because the boys are not as sharp as they used to be.
Agreed the team must improve. However, we could have still won the the game 1:0 if the officials had done the needful.
We’re starting to miss Jesus who takes and protects the ball under pressure. We’re finding it hard to feed people regularly at the moment. Though Rowland above makes a good point in how many scorelines we won by one goal, and v Brentford we looked good for another
Watching the game it was obvious that Odegaard Saka and Martinelli were marked men. Not sure what Arteta will do because other teams are gonna use those same tactics, hopefully, it’s just a blip by us and we pick it up again, surely teams were already trying to mark and sit back against us, why all of a sudden does it seem difficult or different?
Sometimes they need to try shorts from afar, that is what Xhaka, Odegaard and Partey need to do. Pass, pass and pass does not work in low blocks.
But odegaard xhaka and partey do give shot.may be u are mistaken
We must stop winning games before they are played. We unerestimate some teams and go on to struggle against them. That’s waht happened at Everton.
But against Brentford, our team stuggled to stop their counter-attacks. Many teams are trying to catch us with this tactic all the time. But we didn’t show much awareness against Brentford and they had more dangerous shots against us than vice versa
“underestimate”, I mean