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The Different Shapes and Build Up of an Opposition
Arsenal's pressing was really good against Brighton as well. They didn't allow them to build up through the middle, which is what they usually do. I thought it was quite a fascinating game in many respects. Clearly Arsenal are really well set up to deal with other teams maybe changing their pressing structures but when they actually go to a man to man system, it's much harder to deal with. You can pull man to man systems apart really easily because leads used to play man to man and they used to get pulled apart really easily. But in a single game, it's worth a team like Brighton coming up and being like, let's just see how they respond to it. We want to