Kevin Whitcher
OnlineGooner’s palms have been suitably greased to do a bit of promo for club commercial partners Huawei, specifically to publicise their new Arsenal Edition Ascend P7 smartphone. So bear with us, such aspects of life help us to continue providing the content we do.
First up, we, along with several other Arsenal fans from various sources were asked if we wanted to pose a specific question to Arsene Wenger. You can see the complete video of all queries asked in the link to publicise the smartphone above.
Anyhow, we decided to ask the following – For big matches Arsenal have played, have you ever set your team up differently to counter the opposition strengths. If not, why not? If yes, give us an example and do you feel it worked?
This was predictably whittled down to the first question only, and Huawei asked us to film the asking of the question, so Gooner media whore and podcast host David Oudot stepped in to do the honours.
The result can be seen on this very page, but for those who would prefer to read the response, Arsene says he has. His full answer was as follows – “For big matches of course, for us managers it is always very difficult to find the way to stop the strong points from our opponents without losing our own qualities. For years we were very strong in the big games. I think last year was a bad year on that front. It happens of course that we change the way we play and we try to cancel the strong points of our opponent”
This was filmed on August 7th, but after the events in Dortmund on Tuesday evening, you can draw your own conclusions!
