De Bruyne explains how Man City overcomes Arsenal’s strategy weak

April 28, 2023

John Stones goal, Erling Haaland and a goal from Kevin De Bruyne enabled City to afford to win the Premier League this season. This means Man City has just two points left behind Arsenal in the table, but with two games in hand on Mikel Arteta’s team.

Speaking to Peacock, midfielder De Bruyne demonstrated a change in drinking tactics in the match against the big guns:

“The way Arsenal pressures our team is at the top level. It is almost impossible to play from the back as Especially when you really kick the ball up, it’s like Set Piece and we know we need to play long ball today, which we used to do during training.

I tried to go a little deep and then tried to get away from Erling when he had the ball and I thought in the first half we created some opportunities in this way.

We usually play with two numbers 8 and I think Guardiola wants a little more control of the ball Because of the way they put under pressure, so Gundogan will be 6 times twice and I have to choose time More depends on who is putting pressure between Xhaka and Partey—if Partey is Put the pressure down, I will try to play behind him or play close to him and it is difficult for Holding and Gabriel.

They had to decide whether they had to be by my side or next to Erling. I didn’t have much time to play in the first half and Obviously they changed a little bit in the second half, but I was a little bit wide in the second half.”