Arsenal hoping to exploit not so secret weapon fuelling title bid in Man City showdown

Arsenal person profited substantially from acceptable pieces since the instauration of Nicolas Jover to Mikel Arteta's coaching staff, scoring 42 goals from acceptable plays successful that time

Nicolas Jover is rapidly becoming Arsenal’s not truthful concealed limb successful their pursuit of the Premier League title.

The German has been credited with 42 goals from set-pieces during his 3 years astatine the Emirates aft pursuing Mikel Arteta to the Gunners, the Spaniard having persuaded Pep Guardiola to instrumentality him connected committee erstwhile Arteta was his fig 2 astatine Manchester City.

At his archetypal Premier League club, Brentford, Jover would enactment his magic tucked distant successful the basal but present helium is centre signifier alongside Arteta and his coaches successful the dug retired with the Gunners brag stating: “There are galore ways to triumph shot matches and acceptable pieces are a existent almighty one.”

For Jover who started his shot beingness arsenic a video expert astatine Montpellier, moving connected to enactment with the palmy Croatian planetary broadside earlier Dean Smith brought him to the Bees, it’s each astir assortment from free-kick and country situations.

“After 7 oregon 8 matches a operation tin enactment again,” helium explains. “The higher the level of shot the much acceptable pieces matter.”

That is echoed by the information that galore clubs present employment a set-pieces coach, Guardiola rapidly replacing the departed Jover with Carlos Vicens. Aston Villa brag Unai Emery is simply a large instrumentality of agelong haired Austin MacPhee, Emery often seen slapping him connected the backmost pursuing a grooming crushed inspired goal.

Liverpool progressively trust connected Aaron Briggs with players, astatine archetypal sceptical, present connected committee with the reasonably caller phenomenon.

Gunners England prima Bukayo Saka admitted: “What he’s (Jover) doing is intelligibly moving truthful we volition proceed doing it.” Team-mate Leandro Trossard added: “It’s a pleasance to enactment with him. His set-pieces person added to our game.”

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Arteta was hopeless to lure Jover distant from Manchester City erstwhile helium became Arsenal boss. “I asked him to travel and articulation our project. He’s having a truly beardown interaction connected the team.” helium said.

Dean Smith, presently managing MLS broadside Charlotte FC, acceptable the Premier League shot rolling for Jover though helium knew the players would person to beryllium won implicit with set-pieces traditionally not their favourite portion of training.

Smith stated: “John Egan scored a mates of goals successful past archetypal mates of games with Nico’s input and that helped the players bargain into it. I inactive talk to him regularly and I’m pleased helium is doing truthful well.

“He decidedly deserves a medal if Arsenal spell connected to triumph the Premier League.”

Judging by Jover’s set-piece occurrence complaint nary 1 tin reason astir that.

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