Premier League 2019-20: 3 bold changes Freddie Ljungberg must make at Arsenal

#2 Implement Counter-Pressing

Is he the man to take Arsenal forward?

Pressing from the front is a key attribute of any great team. If you analyse the best teams to walk the planet, they all pressed as a unit in cohesion.

Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool team are the prime example of how when you have the whole team pressing together, it can be insufferable for opposing teams.

In the Premier League, you have to choose to be either organised or intense. Arsenal have naively found themselves adopting neither strategy, thus resulting in 15 years without a league title.

The interim Arsenal boss must now completely change the team’s lacklustre approach off the ball. Often you see players strolling around while opposing teams calmly pass around them. Put quite simply, that’s not good enough, as what players do off the ball is just as important as what they do on it.

This approach needs the whole team on board. If not, inconsistent gaps will appear, thus making it even easier to play through the Gunners.