forefront of recent discussions around grappling and blocking<\/a> at set-pieces, with Everton boss David Moyes identifying Arteta’s side as the trailblazers for the use of “dark arts”.<\/p>\nFabian Hurzeler, whose Brighton said host the Premier League leaders on Wednesday, has called for stricter rules around set-pieces and criticised Arsenal for time-wasting.<\/p>\n
Seagulls head coach Hurzeler claimed the Gunners sometimes wait “over one minute” to take their corners.<\/p>\n
Arteta said such criticism was “part of the job” as he doubled down on their approach.<\/p>\n
“I am upset we haven’t scored more and that we have conceded [from set-pieces] as well,” Arteta told a news conference.<\/p>\n
“We want to be the best and most dominant team in every aspect of the game. That is the trajectory and the aim of this team.”<\/p>\n
Arsenal have scored the most goals (58) and conceded the fewest (22) in the Premier League. Their goal difference of +36 is therefore the highest.<\/p>\n
They are way ahead on goals scored from set-pieces, including penalties, with 21 compared to Manchester United’s 15 in second.<\/p>\n
Sixteen of their goals this season – 27.6% – have come from corners. Spurs are top of that particular table, having scored 13 of their 38 goals from corners – a total of 34.2%.<\/p>\n
Arteta said the increase in set-piece threat was because football is “evolving” and becoming “more and more difficult” from a tactical perspective.<\/p>\n
He added: “Teams are adapting, teams know after every sequence of play – whether it is a throw-in, a restart of play, an open-pitch situation – after that, they know exactly what they have to do and everything is almost man to man.<\/p>\n
“So it is not going to be a different game, unless we change the rules, because the evolution of the game is that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has responded to criticism of Arsenal’s tactics from rival managers by saying he is “upset” they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-516367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}