Arsenal 5-0 Leeds Player Ratings and Match Reaction
Not sure why the usual suspects haven't started this thread, but anyway my focus will be more on the Match reaction than player ratings (hoping the specialists come in and do their thing)
Though starting with player ratings, I think everyone was generally ok, but MOTM IMO was Raya, who didn't put a foot wrong with his flawless distribution and some incredible saves to deflate the opposition quite early on.
As for the match, I fully expected us to comfortably beat Leeds but not in the manner it happened. I thought we would create a lot of opportunities and show some progress in beating the low block...that did not occur IMO.
Instead we ended up scoring with all attempts on target apparently and mainly through set pieces and fortunate breaks/steals.
As analysed on MOTD, we starved our striker of obvious opportunities to play the ball to him, and it wasn't soley an Odegaard issue as I tend to believe.
So in short, we still don't have a proper answer to the low block which was what I was really looking forward to finding out yesterday.
We probably won't have that same problem with the next opposition, however it is a bit worrying that out of 6 goals we've scored so far we haven't seen a proper executed team goal ( this excludes setpieces of course).
