Declan rice took up the same position at every corner. Man utd never marked him because they were stacking zonal at the front post. Arsenal noticed and in the 2nd half they started putting players as blockers between utd defenders and rice so he had space. Paid off in the 96th min. Credit tifo

Also I had my doubts on Vieira but both times he’s come off the bench he’s made an impact. I am begging for him to get a run of games after the international break.

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).

Great video, you can clearly notice this analysis was done without any emotional bias. You actually rewatched the game

Adam's explanations work for me like no one else's Thanks, mate

We're just 4 games in, Rice is going to get better.... and Hazertz can't actually get much worse so by default he gets better, or plays less and less.

Declan is the Xhaka upgrade, not Havertz. Let White play RB, let Partey stay at the 6. That's the magic formula

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.

For Man United’s goal Rice wasn’t in that position cos he pressed high and it led to Arsenal getting the ball so I think he did what he’s supposed to do, Havertz just gave the ball away badly

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

Get Partey next to him with Odegaard in front and Arsenal will be hard to break

He was just at the right end of the cross & got a good enough deflection. GABRIEL JESUS’ goal was the one! 😮‍💨 how he sent the defender sliding pst him.

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

I used to buy FourFourTwo 20 years ago. That and EDGE magazine were the top tier magazines back when I was still buying magazines.

Chelsea fan here, Rice is World class player, he knows where is dangerous

9:47 Me coming back to this video for the second time and smiling at the statement

I really like his athleticism

Opportunity meets preparation = result.

Any idea when will the Declan Rice interview coming out?

He did this at west ham

Just need Partey and Rice in the middle honestly .. answers so many problems .. Havertz ain’t it unless he grows a pair

Partey and Rice double pivot will me madness

top notch vid as always (I havent watched it)

Rice could be like prime Alex Song with another solid season under his belt.

Basically, Arteta is moulding Declan Rice into Patrick Vieira.

Arteta and the coaches are evolving his game way beyond what I thought was possible. Rice deserves more credit, he is humble and has the personality to be the arsenal captain for many years to come. He is arsenal.

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.

He said after the game his favourite position as at 6

If Arsenal want the best out of Rice and Partey they need to be in a joint pivot of a 4-2-1-3. Havertz clearly doesn’t quite cut it yet so he should be an understudy for Ødegaard plus if Zinchenko inverts it’ll be a 3-3-1-3 similar to the Ajax model and if we can play like that plus the usual 4-3-3 I reckon we could win a big title this year (if everybody) stays injury free from now on

He was apparently overated at west ham but now hes at a greedy six club hes now world class 😂

To be honest VAR was the motm

People who say he only passes backwards and sideways have 0 ball knowledge and don’t actually watch games

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.

'Evolve' is an intransitive verb, mate! Arsenal literally can't evolve Rice; Rice has evolved at Arsenal.

Premium upgrade on Partey???? Excuse me??? In what world?

Umm the most effective tactic is Maguire go in to the pitch...

??? 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

This is all very clever but the fact is that Arsenal scraped by the win.

I like most of your videos but this is just wrong. Rice was a hige attacking influence for us, especially last year. Saying arsenal 'evovled' him is just standard big 6 bias

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.

He defend He attack He also advertises yogurty snack I hit subscribe as soon as I heard this

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.

I believe that having Timber instead of zinchenko will make Rice play even better as a lone 6

I want to see Viera in the position of Havertz,he can pass,energetic and ain't a laibaility on defence,plus he is protected by 2fullback ad a DM.Sorry i rather have W.Prose or Maddy over Havertz.

Yes, it would have made a lot more sense to have Fabio Vieira and Reiss Nelson in the box during corners. Two of the smallest and weakest players in the Arsenal side, instead of Declan Rice. Great insight and analysis. Numpty.

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 scary part is that this is what Rodri has been doing for city in over 3 seasons now (effortlessly). Can DR become that goood?

Let’s be real, both team sucks during the match. It’s like watching league 2 match, even Wrexham is more competent.

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⚒️

.An inverted RB covers that spot left in transition. Its sad that Timber is likely out of the season as he would have been perfect for that. but that means you are playing with two inverted fullbacks (Timber,Zinchenko) except Zinchenko cant really play as a LCB in a 3 when the RB inverts.

It’s gonna be great when his career ends and all he has to show for it is the Conference League with West Ham.

They did not beat ManUtd. They escaped a legit goal by Garnacho. Utilised a blocker tactic while taking corner, which should be a foul. The game is rigged

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

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.

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.

He did very little in the game and was unmarked and got a lucky deflection

Laughable.

you have to remember that united were playing with 4th and 5th choice cb's which were being held and that rices' shot was deflected into the net. to me arsenal yesterday were as good as they are going to be this year whereas united have so much room for improvement. and on the offside goal it could have gone either way and you would be making a different video

🤣🤣🤣. He was non existent all game. Got lucky nobody was at the backpost scores a deflected goal All of a sudden. World beater, “HOW ARSENAL EVOLVED DECLAN RICE TO BEAT UNITED” 😭my goodness its beyond cringe. No i dont support dogshit united either. Arsenal were that poor they made Utd look dangerous at times and thats saying something

He was garbage then scored a deflection? I don't get the appreciation

You are over analysing a random moment in the game. Arsenal got a corner in the last minute of the game so they sent all their big, physically imposing players that can jump and head q ball forward, Rice being one of them. It wasn't planned or premeditated. It just happened. The real question is why did the mugs at Manchester United leave Rice alone at the backpost?😂

I’m not a Manchester United fan but if the clueless VAR didn’t disallow Garnacho’s clean goal, Arsenal wouldn’t have made the come back…that’s how football is.

He has played like that for a couple of years. He has not done anything different since being at Arsenal. Sorry, I love your videos but this frankly bollocks.

Garnacho was ONSIDE on the other angle shown; fault on Evans at 2nd goal; penalty for Hojlund not given. Edit: Oh yea, and the RED for Saka that wasn't given. Studs on the leg at high speed.

If we didn’t pay $100million then he wouldn’t even be in that position. lol it was a great call by the brass

Terrible analysis. Rice is a typical overrated British player.