Arsenal: 3 improvements still to make under Arteta

2. Stop Using Set Pieces as a Way to Give the Ball Back

It would be partially fair to say that this isn’t Arteta’s job. Nicolas Jover took over from Andreas Georgson as the set piece specialist with his job role fairly self explanatory.

His predecessor mastered the art of making Arsenal harder to score against from dead balls in quite an impressive manner, yet their ineptitude at attacking set pieces was a source of continuous frustration.

Having players in the squad who are rotationally fouled like Bukayo Saka, as annoying as it may be, these then become other opportunities to score. There are other routes to goal, believe it or not. Arsenal might be wise to start using them.

While the argument may be that it’s Jover’s job, Arteta was the man who hired him. It was his appointment just as Georgson was his before. If you can’t do a job then you hire someone who can.

Obviously this isn’t a call for Jover to lose his job as he’s barely been here, but there has got to be a solution found that makes Arsenal more threatening from these situations: Gabriel and Takehiro Tomiyasu are two players who can be dangerous in the penalty area.

Even if it means a few extra set piece and corner drills on the training pitch, something needs to done.

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