Arsenal secured a huge victory by beating Man United 3-1 this weekend, with Declan Rice taking all the plaudits for his performance. But while there was an element of fortune to his injury time goal, it’s actually a fitting reward for how his game has evolved in his short time under Mikel Arteta
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Let’s be real, both team sucks during the match. It’s like watching league 2 match, even Wrexham is more competent.
All over the internet its about Rice scoring. As an arsenal fan i think he is just lucky the ball got deflected. Gariel Jesus goal is much more compose and deserve all the praise. Plus Viera assisting him shows that if Haverts still playing, that last goal wont happen
The Arse-oles Evolved him😭😭…you guys are so delusional.
He became the Giant at W⚒️H. Thats why last seasons 'Floppers'😏 broke the British Transfer record to get him…from West Ham😭😭😭. ⚒️COYI⚒️
We forget Rice plays the entire game doing not only his job as a cdm but also he does Havertz’s job too. Whilst Havertz is on holiday on the pitch, rice is doing all the work
Umm the most effective tactic is Maguire go in to the pitch…
When rice get the ball, onana just can see Maguire is in front of him, then he moved left to get the sight. When he saw rice going to shoot, Onana had no time to save because Maguire was a great own goal opponent. 😂 yea Onana, you chose the MU, enjoy it.
I stopped listening when you said he is a premium upgrade on Thomas Partey. When fully fit Partey is still the best in the world. He receives under pressure and skilfully turn away and play incisive passes. Rice is more mobile and not as injury prone hence why he is being used there.
Partey and Rice double pivot will me madness
It’s not a good thing when all your successful passes are sideways and only your unsuccessful passes are more ambitious. That is bad. No surprise that a channel goes mad for a player after receiving an exclusive interview I suppose but his stats from Sofascore show he kept the ball ok making 64/73 of his passes and also making 1 clearance, 1 tackle & 2 interceptions, basically having an unexceptional game defensively but if we are judging him by his numbers we should also say he had no assists (fine) but only 0.03. xA, 0 key passes, 0 crosses (not his fault he was positioned centrally mostly), 2 attempts on goal (only 1 on target that was obvs. the goal and a header from another corner, I.e. nothing in open play), 1 attempted dribble but 0 successful dribbles. Most importantly though he lost possession 10 times despite, as the excellent Tifo analysis pointed out (from John McKenzie, JJ Bull don’t know nothing about nothing), he did not want to receive the ball in tight central areas, he preferred to drop deep and wide, receiving the ball more facing forward then playing a simple pass. I don’t want to hate on Rice, he is an excellent player, worked hard defensively (but without really standing out) and scored the decisive winner for which he should be praised but to extrapolate from by far his best moment in the match to say he was excellent and has evolved is a massive stretch. Good player but Arsenal were not great going forward until that set piece goal at the end while Rice was symptomatic of the lack of creativity and incision that Arsenal showed in this game. They were much more aggressive pressing united and seemed more dangerous while in possession in both games last year (even the game at Old Trafford that they lost, Arsenal still put loads more pressure on United and it was only United scoring a couple of lightening counter attacking goals that carried the day).
Edit: here is a comp of what Declan Rice did in the game, do you see incisive, creative play in the final 3rd? Like I mentioned we don’t see him receiving the ball in tight areas on the half turn? No. We see him receiving the ball deeper and being neat and tidy, not bad but not amazing (especially if you ignore the goal, not that you should but you should also acknowledge he had an ok game to that point).
Basically, Arteta is moulding Declan Rice into Patrick Vieira.
Great player, who is changing his game at the age of 24 and doing it at such a rapid pace. He will get better in the final third, that final ball is not there, maybe as he nurtures that chemistry with his peers his vision will improve as he will know which positions they like to take up in different phases of the game.
Southgate must be loving this. This also improves his squads offensive ability as the duo of Rice and Bellingham might become unplayable (already difficult to play against).
??? he's done this kind of thing at west ham too. I hate this culture of players only being deemed good enough once they go to the sky six, it's a kneejerk reaction after a deflected winner
The scary part is that this is what Rodri has been doing for city in over 3 seasons now (effortlessly). Can DR become that goood?
This bloke is so overrated it's just madness. One scuffed deflected goal in a fairly average performance an people are creaming themselves. 105m is great business for West Ham. Arsenal spent a lot of dough for 3rd or 4th place.
9:15 this is why the Partey inverting to DM or signing of Timber makes sense and for those that don't know about Partey he done this role with Athletico where he would invert to cover Saul
'Evolve' is an intransitive verb, mate! Arsenal literally can't evolve Rice; Rice has evolved at Arsenal.
He was apparently overated at west ham but now hes at a greedy six club hes now world class 😂
He did this at west ham
This is all very clever but the fact is that Arsenal scraped by the win.
Terrible analysis. Rice is a typical overrated British player.
Ben White was at fault for United's goal…..all he had to do was time the pass and lunge in to stop it going through to Rashford. There wasn't even any real pace on the ball and it wasn't a one touch pass.
I used to buy FourFourTwo 20 years ago. That and EDGE magazine were the top tier magazines back when I was still buying magazines.
To be honest VAR was the motm
This is exactly why he's a Xhaka replacement rather than partey replacement…. Where he's basically an upgrade of Xhaka and also defensively better
Premium upgrade on Partey????
Excuse me??? In what world?
good analysis, but incomplete. Teaching transitions between phases properly tells the story about both Declan Rice and Kai Havertz, but staying on topic just look at the pass map you brought up to see what I mean. Declan has strong pass map numbers in the traditional 6 area in phase 1 and 2 of the build up from defensive third to middle third because he joins the center backs and plays alongside Zinchenko in a double pivot early. Then when Arsenal progress the ball and play past the pressure the Argentinian box midfield rotates into a diamond and so Declan moves into #8 positions–he very clearly rotates into the left 8 position almost exclusively. He can do this because Arsenal typically will target their wingers as a release and Rice personally has endless stamina and so he offers front footed #8 play with #6 recovery. The real story is that Arteta has changed to a diamond midfield to play higher and he can do that with Declan being able to transition between 2 positions (#6 and #8) in both defensive and attacking phases. On another note, Rice not being in the traditional #6 is NOT why Arsenal gave up that goal exclusively as they are taught rotations based on queues where other players are going. In this situation right backs and left backs will typically invert. So why did they do this? It is game to game. ETH had Man United clearly defending in a low block and time wasting all game; such is the fear that Arsenal create nowadays evidently – as if Man United's expensive assembly of players should be playing like they are peak Blackburn and Sam Allardyce is their gaffer. So Arteta's system is designed to put an extra attacker higher when Arsenal face low blocks and that is what they are doing. White or Zinchenko should have been inverting here, I would have to look at the tape to understand why they are not. Rice is where he is supposed to be.
Opportunity meets preparation = result.
People are acting like he wasn't already doing this shit for West Ham. Now that he's done it in an important game against United, suddenly all of the praise is being put on Arteta and Arsenal.
It’s gonna be great when his career ends and all he has to show for it is the Conference League with West Ham.
Rice would often get forward for West Ham and pop up in wide areas on the pitch. I don't think putting Rice on the back post was any evolution for him as a player. He can carry the ball from deep, take on a player, get past AND play the ball. But I guess once he does that for Arsenal, it'll be another side of his game that Arteta got out of him!
Let's all just pretend that Rice didn't cost over £100m and had all this in his locker already.
Rice could be like prime Alex Song with another solid season under his belt.
Declan is the Xhaka upgrade, not Havertz. Let White play RB, let Partey stay at the 6. That's the magic formula
Any idea when will the Declan Rice interview coming out?