Gary Neville is absolutely shameless

Ridiculous delusion, arsenal had 1 good chance and missed it.

Pic related, liverpool won at a canter and spent the last 30 minutes rotating their players out and resting

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>1 good chance
You mean the Obama's lob or Pepe's 1_on_1?
>xG
xGetTheFuckOuttaMyFace

>playing a system that needs spectacular fullbacks to work, against a team that has amazing fullbacks
Fucking genius

xG is an objective way of looking at the quality of chances created, saying arsenal could have been 3 up by half time is just pure fantasy

>Emerys tactics were shit though, why play a narrow attack when Liverpool’s fullbacks always push high to cross
It's a high risk high reward strategy. The diamond do invite opposition fullbacks to bomb forward, but there has been questions regarding TAA getting caught off positions defensively. Mourinho with Inter played a diamond against 433 Barcelona, trying absorb the pressure and to counter the space left by Maxwell and Dani Alves going forward in his 3-1 tactical masterclass win.

The difference is Mourinho had Lucio and Samuel at defense, while Emery had Davido Sideshow Bob. If Pepe scored, and Arsenal won 0-1 everyone will be lauding the diamond tactical masterclass

>A fucking diamond

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being a football TV pundit is ez money tho. turn up, get some makeup put on, wear smart clothes and spit out a really shitty opinion on tv while other retards agree with you.

>If Pepe scored, Arsenal would've won 1-0
Ah yes, because we all know how well parking the bus works against Liverpool.

As soon as klopp got his team in at half term he countered the diamond perfectly by pushing his team up wide and passing across arsenals defence rather than crossing

Arsenal were never gonna get a result without insane luck when you have pic related against eachother

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I was watching it with a friend of mine who supports United and at one point he just started counting. 1...2...3..4... and I asked him what he was doing and he just turns to me and goes "6 Arsenal players. 8 Liverpool players. In Arsenal's final third." with the most hateful expression on his face. And sure enough, he was right. There were more Liverpool players in Arsenal's defensive area than there were Arsenal players, when Arsenal were the ones on the ball.

Sure it is, my man. Because they didn't score when having such opportunity.

Xhaka is so fucking one sided it makes me angry, if he could learn to adjust his brick shithouse body a bit more or even dare to actually use his right foot he might be able to do something other than from left to right.

you were doing really well until the last sentence, if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle

>at half term
This is where Emery failed.

>Neville did bad at Valencia therefore he's not allowed to have an opinion on anything

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it's easy to be an armchair manager

It's like a virgin telling a porn star how to have sex.

reminder

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Theres 2 ways to beat klopps memepress

>1. Be good enough to pass through the press a.k.a Guardiola
>2. Lump it up to a big man and play over the press, who can then hold it up for other players

The problem with 1 is City are probably the only team in the world good enough to do it. The problem with 2 is van dijk makes it near impossible to pull off, I cant really think of any forwards strong enough and technically skilled enough to do it.

Of course you can get lucky, or liverpool can have an off day, but really those are the only 2 ways to do it. What Emery tried was never gonna work without massive luck

>The problem with 1 is City are probably the only team in the world
Barca killed them first leg.

Even with PSG he was shit away.
Weakmind coach.

not really, they were very lucky to win that 3-0

They didn't at all, if you watch that match back it was incredibly even for most of the match

. Be good enough to pass through the press a.k.a Guardiola
Even this is 50/50 with a team as good as City's. Literally 11mm. You're right about Van Dijk though. He's a bit of a cheat code. Arsenal tried playing it out from the back because hoofing it would just result in an easily won header by Van Dijk, but that doesn't work either because you have mad cunts like Firmino and Mane right up on your dick the second you receive the ball in your own box. And even if you do somehow get past Van Dijk, he just goes ahead and catches you. I don't know how a cunt can be so tall, so strong, so smart and so fast all at once.

Did you watch the first leg? It really wasn't as one-sided as the scoreline would make you think.

Not really, pic related, and this was without firmino who leads liverpool's press from the front and starts the pressure on the opposition defence, plus on one of the biggest pitches in europe

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No they didn't. They were extremely lucky to win let alone win by a 3-0 scoreline.

never rated the diamond desu, ruined the first madrid galacticos and made mourinho's first chelsea boring as fuck

Emery played like football manager where you just let big teams dominate sit deep and head the ball out hope for a lucky goal

Problem was he didn't use David Luiz' long flat bullet throw at every opportunity

Use ozil idk, what's the point in paying him otherwise

What does „XG” mean?

He's right. Emery keeps doing the same shit in every big game and always loses.

you are completely delusional Arsenal was lucky to not be down by 4 at the half

if your tactics against liverpool are literally "let trent and robbo have the ball whenever they like" then you will lose that game of football
disastrous tactical performance. could have been 5-0 on another day if arsenal's midfield weren't so industrious in the first half

They also could have easily trashed Pool, if Pepe hadn't missed 2 sitters. The first half was actually really tight and I was worrying if Kloppo would let it slip already.

>They also could have easily trashed Pool

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the performance of the arsenal players was good, like i say the midfield contained liverpool really well
but emery didn't give them a chance the way they were set out, they were relying on liverpool not scoring (despite let them have the ball in dangerous areas all match) and sneaking one of the break. and liverpool always score at anfield

Wow I feel like racially abusing Emery now

its not even tactics so much as the arsenal players just had no desire to want the ball it looks like they only started giving a fuck after the 80th minute

t. claude

How is losing 7-1 against fucking prime Messi and Barcelona considered a shameful thing? If anything, G Nev overperformed with that shite Valencia team.

>How is losing 7-1 against fucking prime Messi and Barcelona considered a shameful thing? If
No other team did then right?

>dude just invite the top assisters in the league forward against a defence consisting of Sideshow Bob
Yep, Emery is retarded.

They certainly should have scored two or three goals, there were golden opportunities absolutely squandered.

Name a single one that wasn't Pepe's that was more than a half-chance

Emery:
> 4 seasons at Valencia,4 4th place finishes
> 3 straight europa league titles

Neville:
> couldn't even finish a single season at Valencia

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and all those crosses resulted in exactly nothing.
>goal 1: directly from a corner
>goal 2: soft, but fair penalty
>goal 3: david luiz gets dabbed on by salah

arsenal had several decent counter attacks whose shot either went straight at the keeper, held the ball too long to shoot

There is a large subset of football pundits who are employed specifically because they spout idiotic, contentious opinions.
Making the audience angry drives engagement.

Emery took a team that was shit but fun to watch and turned it into a team that's shit and sad to watch

Emery himself is also both less likeable and less MANLY than Wenger.

XD

A neural network algorithm registers where and how the shot was taken and determines whether it should have been a goal or not.

For example, a player who takes a shot from 2 feet away and misses will register an xG because he should have scored, but not a G because he didn't score. If his G is is lower than his xG, that means the player is a bad finisher.

But it can also mean that the player has good positioning. A player who consistently puts himself in a position where he's likely to score is a good player even if his finishing is shit. And that's where things become complicated.

t. based krautard. Not with those tactics. If he had put three up front to stretch those two centre backs (i.e., Laca/Auba/Pepe) and played hoofball and played high risk, sure. What he actually played was "try and put 9 men behind the ball and punt it up to Pepe and hope Auba can transition from defending against Roberton to being in the box in an instant"