In this match Farmers Fulham hosted the Gunners, Fulham lined up in a 4231 with defenders Bassey, Adarabioyo, Robinson, Castagne, backs Cairney, Palhinha, attacking midfielder Iwobi, wings Willian, Cordova-Reid, striker Jiménez
The Gunners continue to play a 433 with Gabriel, Saliba, Ben White, Kiwior, Rice, Havertz, Ødegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Nketiah.
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The Gunners started the game well, as you can see the two wingers were still active, attacking Fulham's flanks from the start, and their firepower led to a goal in the 4th minute, as Martinelli drove into the Fulham box from the left side of the counterattack, and then shot straight at the center of the field, which was already going to be a goal, and Leno barely managed to keep it out, but Saka came out of the back to add to the goal. But then Saka came out of the back and scored.
The Gunners started this attack smoothly, and it was clear to see that Fulham's flanks could not fully block Saka and Martinelli, kept them with the ball can be ready to break through, not quite dare to force a break, the beginning of the game to carry on against the
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Fulham's tactics at the beginning is very simple, Willian on the left has been trying to move wide to the right, so that the right here to rush up to directly hit the Gunners left gap, this game the Gunners are sending Kiwior, but the previous Zinchenko recently full of often make a mistake, compared to the right side of the BenWhite, the Gunners left is indeed more attacking, but Fulham's tactics But Fulham's tactics are too direct, and the Gunners can still block most of the attacks at this point.
As the game went on though, things started to change, Fulham's Palhinha now has very high tackling (8th in the league) and shoveling stats (1st in the league) and is standing up quite well, with him acting as a barrier in the middle of the park, it was difficult for the Gunners to attack from the center, and along with that, it made Nketiah invisible, and it became difficult for the Gunners midfielders to pick their spots when they went up front
Under the cover of Palhinha, Iwobi gradually began to play a role, he was very active in this game, constantly running back and forth to receive, and his physical toughness, has been colliding with the Gunners midfield, but still able to take the ball and pass out, Fulham soon formed the central body of the distribution of the ball to Iwobi, with Palhinha behind him, so that Iwobi does not have to worry about defense, he has been a big mess of the Gunners midfield. With Palhinha behind him, Iwobi didn't have to worry about defense, so he kept messing with the Gunners' midfield. When Iwobi started to stand firm in front of the midfield, Fulham's long passes to the right side of the field had a transition point, and they could be closer to the right side of the field to distribute the ball, no longer just single passes in the air, but through the ground to distribute the ball, which made the right side of the field a much bigger threat, and the Gunners started to be constrained by Iwobi's distribution.
Fulham's position is getting more and more stable, the two wingbacks don't go up too much.
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After that it was a bit difficult to know how to attack, the center was blocked by Palhinha, the two flanks were effective, but because Fulham's side was already in a good position and could no longer cut in at will as they did in the opening half, Fulham started to counterattack with more and more threats.
At the 29:00 mark Fulham breaks off
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Possession counterattacked, Willian took the ball on the left, Cairney followed at high speed, the two played OverLap and stacked it over, Cairney played a lateral pass directly outside the box on the left, Jiménez at the far post caught up and grabbed the goal
Kiwior was the left back on this one, and at the last minute he actually caught up with it, but there seems to have been an error in judgment, as he intended to shovel the ball clear, but instead let the pass slip past his toes to be added on by Jiménez, and the Gunners' left back position is still porous at the moment.
Fulham's morale was boosted by the equalizer, and the ball was in Fulham's hands late in the first half.
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Instead, the side looked at a loss for words, and at halftime, Arteta very decisively replaced Kiwior and sent in Kenyo Tomiyasu, who was intent on strengthening his weaker left side of the defense.
After the start of the second half, Fulham played more smoothly, the number of interceptions of the Gunners' passes is obviously becoming more, Fulham's Robinson interception data is currently the league's first, Castagne is the league's 13th (in terms of defenders is ranked 8th), the number of shoveling Robinson is also quite high, although the team rankings are on the low side, but the right and left guards and the back of the defense of Fulham is in fact considered to be very solid!
Fulham's tackling in the middle and back of the field kept them in check.
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and then a quick breakaway from the defense into a counterattack with Iwobi's carry.
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Trying to add a point in a tie game, but the more you go up, the more you get countered
