Arsenal's secret four-word banner on wall at training ground that fans will love

Mikel Arteta and Arsenal are good known for their unsocial grooming crushed nuances, but 1 banner successful peculiar that adorns London Colney appears to beryllium bearing fruit

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are present firing connected each cylinders acknowledgment to their objective acceptable pieces, but the penning was connected the partition – rather literally.

Despite a mediocre opening to the campaign, Arteta’s Gunners present find themselves second successful the Premier League and flying of late, having won their past 3 matches by a three-goal margin oregon more.

Part of the occurrence has been down to their deadly acceptable pieces, with defender Gabriel peculiarly effectual from corners. The Brazilian has recovered the backmost of the nett 4 times truthful acold this term, including a victor against Tottenham, a pivotal header against Manchester City, and the opener successful their past league crippled against West Ham.

So fans won't beryllium shocked to larn of a applicable slogan imprinted connected the partition astatine the club’s grooming ground. The set-piece-orientated operation is simply a testament to the tenacity and hard enactment enactment into processing a divers and victory-obsessed attacking beforehand - thing nine fable David Seaman agrees is present hard to stop.

“It’s done connected the grooming ground, and there’s a batch of clip spent connected that. The acceptable portion coach, Nico [Jover], evidently he’s truly good, and the results amusement you that,” the erstwhile goalkeeper stated connected his Seaman Says podcast, brought to you by Betway.

“There’s a monolithic slogan connected the partition – 'set pieces triumph games' – astatine the grooming ground. And they’re showing you that, the magnitude of prep that goes into that.”

Gabriel, who besides scored successful the 5-1 routing of Sporting CP successful the Champions League, isn’t the lone beneficiary of this multiple-pronged attacking approach, arsenic Seaman believes the full broadside are amended for it.

“And it’s not conscionable astir Gabriel,” helium added. “It’s astir each the different blocks that spell on. Watch however Timber blocks the near-post feline from getting successful and heading it. Then there’s players going past the goalkeeper. Ben White past play was unthinkable astatine blocking the goalkeeper in.

“Watch [the opening extremity against West Ham], Antonio finds himself going into a radical of players. He goes left, Gabriel goes the different way.

“He can’t get anyplace adjacent him due to the fact that determination are excessively galore players successful beforehand of him. I’ve seen it erstwhile teams person enactment a antheral connected Gabriel and helium inactive gets away. He’s a large guy, he’s easy 6ft 4in, and he’s superb astatine it.”

The northbound London side’s clash with league-leaders Liverpool successful October besides saw a pivotal set-piece scored – Declan Rice’s inch-perfect free-kick converted by Mikel Merino – and ex-England ace Matthew Upson, who spoke alongside Seaman, believes that this borderline could springiness Arsenal a rubric advantage.

He said: “We’re successful a clip erstwhile it’s full shot – play retired from the backmost astatine immoderate cost. For goalkeepers, it’s truthful difficult. But past the flip broadside is that acceptable pieces are virtually defining who wins the Premier League. It’s that large a deal.

“I played for managers similar Tony Pulis astatine Stoke, and our acceptable pieces kept the lifeline. In the modern game, radical would beryllium stepping backmost and saying, 'look astatine Stoke and their acceptable portion coach'.

“Arsenal are doing it now. The content that Gabriel has – each clip that shot goes successful the box, he’s got a beingness that he’s going to score, and it builds that content successful the team. Now they’re a ace set-piece side.”

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