{"id":876089,"date":"2026-10-09T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876089\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:16:19","slug":"arsenal-tactics-how-mikel-arteta-could-respond-to-defeat-at-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876089\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal tactics: How Mikel Arteta could respond to defeat at Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arteta&#8217;s response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton<\/a>, starting when they host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/leeds-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a> on Saturday (12:30 BST), will be another chapter in his team&#8217;s evolution &#8211; one that is both proactive and reactive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This season we have seen Arteta encourage more asymmetrical and fluid play too, particularly down their right &#8211; a phenomenon worth its own deep-dive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kai Havertz has consistently moved over to the right touchline. White has arrived high up the pitch from a right-back position. Bukayo Saka has found himself on the wing or attacking centrally. Rice and Odegaard have come across to show for the ball too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This new style of play, built on small-space combinations, fluidity and numerical overloads, has given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> new answers to the same old low-block problem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By dragging teams towards one side of the pitch, finding players in the middle or far side of the pitch in space has been a tactic that has led to goals this season too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arteta&#8217;s response to Brighton, starting when they host Leeds on Saturday (12:30 BST), will be another chapter in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-876089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}