Arsenal vs Swansea Preview

In my opinion these should be the tactics Arsenal should adopt against Swansea:


1.The Team:
Offence: RVP and Young. It is time that we should go on offence with to full forwards rather than relying on wingers to come and flank from side lines. Playing park behind RVP would be ideal. Both the players are experienced and both showed great form in respective internationals. Wenger must go with full scale attack right from the first minute.
Midfield: Arteta and Beneyoun must be given chance in this game as it may help in their adaptation to Arsenal playing style against the novice team. But no EPL team should be underestimated as we ost our main home points to unexpected and yet relatively weaker teams. Ramsey can be brought later into the game. Walcott and Arshavin will be holding the side lines. They should cover the midfield but as the opponents would be looking to break from the sides too.
Defence: Martesacker must show his worth in this game. The better you start for a club , the sooner you will be able to adapt in to the club. Playing Santos might be risk as we know that he basically likes attacking and going forward. And leaving the left back location can prove to be the breaking point for defence. Wenger must play defensive. Winning the game is important but winning it with quiet some margin is more important. Sinclair pose threat from side lines. It would be better to cover him with Sagna rather than Santos. Djourou should be given chance here which is basically due to lack of any other solid defender.


2.Stay vigilant:
Our main problem is we lose focus in games with lower clubs. The temperament is very important in the game. Sloppy passes and reckless tackles will be use less in the game. Playing with care is something different and playing with recklessness is different. Three red cards in three games. Only one point from three games. The goal difference is -8 lowest in the table. It is time we accept that we are in grave mayhem and new tactics must be adopt accordingly and sooner rather than later. The last minute signings were a kind of frenzy where Wenger went on buying any one available. But this was more acceptable rather than not buying. But it is time to move ahead now. There won't be any Wilshere or Vermaelen and Fab and Nasri already far far away.


3. Forget Fab and Nasri!
Numerous articles are being published regarding the players lamenting over Fab and Nasri leaving the club. Its time to move ahead. Time to forget all the downfalls. Looking back in time won't change anything. Wenger must give confidence to the new team that it is time they take the team responsibility to themselves and stop crying over what happened. Forget the 8-2 defeat. Its a game. Somethings are bound to happen. The best thing is to learn from mistakes which our team is lacking the most. That includes Wenger too. But still hopes are high with the new arrivals. Best of luck to gunners!!


4. Finishing is more important than passing:
No doubt Arsenal like Barcelona plays some beautiful game but with what result? When it comes to playing with Barca our weakness is always clearly depicted with almost 30-70 possesion with 30% coming to our side. If we see man utd, the reason they are the champions is that they control the frontline as well as the back line. They always seek to attack especially from crosses and headers. Our style is different if we play the crossing game there is no one in the front of goal post except RVP as the cross usually comes from Wallcott or some winger. Therefore, attack with crosses are useless. The one to one passing is the key to our sucess but that too requires immense quality which unfortunately we don't have now. So what remain is through ball passing and quality finishing right from front. Or if Walcott and Arshavin attack from flanks and come right onto goal keeper using their pace, that could be another and more usefull strategy. Aaron Ramsey must step up. Playing alone in the midfield for last two games, he has been pretty sloppy but again that can be accounted to the recent blows.


5. New strategy:
We need some really good strategy to challenge the big teams now. The Manchester clubs are streaming away , already 8 points clear. There is no window for errors now. Making one mistake can have huge consequences. Already we are suffering from 6 years trophy drought. It will be huge disappointment if we end up at the same stage. The start is yet very different from previous seasons as we are dropping right from the beginning of EPL.