Emery revealed Arsenal's reasons for not using a long pass against Watford

Arsenal manager Unai Emery revealed that he did not ask his team to play an old strategy against Watford because of a physical loss.

Arsenal cannot tie 2-2 when they go to Watford headquarters on the fifth day of the Premier League match at Vicarage Road on Sunday (9/15/2019). Although at the time, they were 2-0 up.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang then gave Arsenal a two-goal lead in the first period. But in the second half, Watford evened the score thanks to Tom Cleverley and Roberto Pereyra.

Watford's first goal, created by Cleverley, was created because of Sokratis's error, Papastathopoulos. By giving a short pass to Matteo Guendouzi, the ball was returned by Gerard Deulofeu in the penalty area.



Physical loss

Previously, Arsenal also almost conceded in the first round. At that time, Guendouzi's ball was stolen by a Watford player and ended with a powerful shot towards the goal.

Fortunately, the ball can still be pushed over by Bernd Leno. Emery then explained why Arsenal survived using a short ball strategy from behind and did not play long balls. Although Watford has given aggressive pressure, especially in the second half.

"By trying the long ball, they are physically stronger than us and will win the ball, we want to enter the front row and connect with Mesut [Ozil], like we did with the second goal," he explained. Emery on Sky Sports.

"These are two different parts, in the first round we control the game as we want, in the second half, they suppress our mistakes and we do more than we want, we need to think about how we can improve our game. Performance, how we can improve our performance. "perform better," he said.



Lessons learned

Emery said the Arsenal players and fans deserved to be disappointed because they could not win. But he will make the match as material for study and evaluation for the Gunners' match.

"We can grow with mistakes and learn for the next game, we say in the first round that 2-0 is not enough, and in the second round, we have to do the same work, but we know that they will do more, they do it, and we cannot break the opponent's line, "he said.

"I will continue to work, we need to improve our performance, get some information from this game, we may be disappointed, but we learn more," Emery said.

After against Watford, Arsenal will play Eintrach Frankfurt in the inaugural match of the European League. Unai Emery had to work hard to improve his team, especially the match to be held in Germany.

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