The match was played at leicester City's home stadium with Leicester City lining up 352, centre-backs Jony Evans, Daniel Amatai, Czarér Serunju, full-backs Timothy Castagne, Luke Thomas, back Yuri Tillmans, Bubacary Sumare, attacking midfielder James Madison, strikers Klech Ichinacho and Jamie Vardy.
The Gunners were 4411, defenders Ben White, Gabriel, Kenyo Fuan, Nuno Tavares, defenders Thomas Partey and Lokunga, two wings Bukayo Saka, Emile Smith Rowe, attacking midfielder Alexander Lacazette and forward Aubameyang.
Just 4 minutes into the game, the Gunners relied on a corner kick to let Gabriel head through the far post from 5 yards, Gabriel completely overwhelmed all the defenders around, which is a rare scene in the Gunners game, Leicester City's defense problem in the corner is relatively large.
As you can see, the Gunners' 4411 is really 4411, their four midfielders have been in a horizontal position, and the four defenders have formed a good protection, the Gunners' midfield does not go to leicester city players to steal and stare at people, but is very focused on intercepting Leicester City's two forwards Jamie Vardy and Klech Ischnacho passes, Arteta believes that in the current Leicester City formation, two forwards, especially Jamie Vardy, have been responsible for the organization of the frontcourt. The main threat attack often comes from Jamie Valdi's ultimate pass.
Since the Gunners were ahead from the start, Leicester City could not play a defensive counterattack, especially at home, they could only press up, but the Gunners midfield group insisted on intensive defense in midfield, which made James Madison not only useless, his pass was almost completely blocked, and because the Gunners' two wings of Bukayo Saka and Emil Smith Rowe were very fast, Leicester City, who played 3 center-backs, would open up the rear if the full-backs were broken, which made it impossible for leicester City's two full-backs to come forward. Because the central support is not enough, it is impossible to control the ball when holding the ball, so it is impossible for the full-backs to rush up.
Leicester City's back Bubacary Sumare has been particularly poor, he has not been able to break the Gunners' conduction in the middle, and although he is desperate in the chase, Arsenal have increased the effect of Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe to a great extent, and once the two begin to intersperse, it is difficult to catch completely.
In the 18th minute, Bukayo Saka and Alexander Lacazette combined to attack the Leicester City penalty area, and after the defender barely cleared out, Emil Smith Rowe, who followed up from the rear, rushed to the center and gently launched a kick, the shot was beautiful, just kicked in the opposite direction after Caspar Schmeicher moved the step, Caspar Schmeichel could not turn back to save.
Too many Leicester City players retreated to the defensive line but did not follow the Gunners' constant influx of players, Bubacary Sumare did not have to return to that position, he was not in a dense play zone, he should do to guard the outer block.
The Gunners began to enter a situation of controlling the game after leading by two goals, and Leicester City of course tried to attack strongly, and there were actually several opportunities in the first half, but at this time, the Gunners' new goalkeeper Ramsdale made several excellent saves to block the shot.
Rodgers replaced two people in midfield, center-back Daniel Amatai and forward Klech Ischnacho, he sent Harvey Barnes and Ademola Lukman, should be adjusted to 451, greatly strengthen the midfield steals, this tactic worked in the second half, but Arteta saw the move in the 58 points to replace Alexander Lacazette, no longer through him organization, but sent Martin Erdegaard, using his control and passing to strengthen the middle, This made Leicester City want to destroy Arsenal's tactical effect in midfield, and then in the 70th minute Rodgers replaced the locked James Madison with Patterson Dhaka, Patterson Dhaka's impact damage was obviously quite high against Manchester United, of course, the impact of continuous reinforcement is effective, but there is not enough time left for Leicester City, and Ramsdale escorted all the way in front of the goal until the end of the game, the performance of this new goalkeeper has no doubt.
Arteta seems to have found a good way to use Emile Smith Ro and Bukayo Saca, especially Emile Smith Roy, who used to be fixed straight up and down in the center position, although this is also full of strength, but now the Gunners, whether it is 4231 or 4411, basically Emile Smith Ro will run around on the left, his movement is too agile, he can return to the middle at any time to become an attacking midfielder, and Bukayo Saca is the original right winger.
If the Gunners' Thomas Partey and Lokunga can have such a good defensive performance, coupled with the fact that left-back Nuno Tavares has several reactions in the game to supplement the broken ball in midfield and immediately take back the ball to his teammates, and maintain at least a stable state in the back line, then Emil Smith Rowe can have a lot of freedom without defending from center to left, and the same is true of Bukayo Saka.
Leicester City played too poorly in this game, the defensive line had problems at the beginning, the back did not play, this three-centre-back formation also has its weaknesses, the pressure of their three center-backs is indeed very large, if they really can't rely on this formation to continue to play, maybe it will be better to change back to 442 or 451.
The Gunners have returned to fifth in the table with these three points after this battle, and there is almost no difference in points in this segment (4th to 7th places), Manchester United and Tottenham are struggling with 7th and 8th places, if the Gunners can maintain this situation, a large number of players bought by the super high transfer fee this year are playing like they are now, and they will have a good performance this year.