Sign up to FREE email alerts from Football London - Arsenal Enter your email Subscribe We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time.More info Arsenal could complete their fourth transfer of the summer window in time for the Premier League clash against Chelsea. Nuno Tavares, Albert Sambi Lokonga and Ben White have already been signed, sealed and delivered with the Gunners splashing a combined fee of £73m to bring the trio to north London. However, Friday night's 2-0 loss to Brentford in the opening game of the new Premier League season further exposed a problem that could stop Arsenal from mounting a top-four - or perhaps more realistically - top-six challenge this term. PROMOTED STORIES Creativity and goals from midfield, mainly the lack of it, was the main issue for manager Mikel Arteta and technical dire...
Romelu Lukaku explained that he simply could not keep up with Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea tactics from the previous campaign. Speaking to the Guardian, Lukaku admitted how impressed he’d been by Tuchel’s methods last year. The German instantly set about deploying his blueprints on Frank Lampard’s group, after the pair exchanged managerial places in January.He installed a 3-4-2-1 formation, ensuring defensive solidity and a greater emphasis on possession. This transformation was instantly recognisable from his very first match in charge. At home to Wolverhampton Wanderers, Chelsea kept a clean sheet, boasted 78.9% and completed 820 passes. Since 2003, both of those possession statistics are the highest totals by a team in their manager’s debut Premier League game in charge.
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