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I just remembered when we used to play xhaka at left back and realised that arteta has had this whole “inverted left back” extra deep midfielder thing planned from the beginning.
Didn’t emery play xhaka at left back way before mikel? Or was that cb
I don’t know now. I could be misremembering.
At first, it was more of a bad injury situation. Tierney, Kola were out. Saka wasn’t ready.
But now I remember a comment he made in the lines of ‘We lost because we didn’t have Xhaka’ (I think it was after a Europa loss/exit), I think he wanted an inverted LB.
Yes, and you start noticing a lot of these things if you look carefully. For example, I don’t think a single person last year could have told you that havertz could do a job playing alongside the 6 in the out of possession 4-4-2 block. Yes it was Sheffield but the team didn’t look worse.