Wagwaan
Active Member
You definitely made some mistakes in that formation.
I highly doubt this is the formation or players that Arteta would go for but it's what i would like to see. I think Luiz could be a gem in midfield with his passing. A midfield trio of Xhaka-Torreira-Luiz SHOULD have a more defensively solid look to it. Give Bellerin & Saka more of a licence to bomb forward. It also puts more emphasis on the front 3 to create in the final third rather than have the outside forwards spending the majority of the game doing the defensive duties. Mari would be a gamble, but Newcastle are a game that hopefully that gamble wont be punished severely if it goes pete tong.