Jonas Eidevall reacts to 1-0 defeat to Hacken
Yesterday at 03:45 PM
Arsenal fell to a 1-0 defeat to Hacken in Sweden in the first leg of their UWCL playoff round on Wednesday evening. Jonas Eidevall spoke to the press post-match, the first three questions are from Arseblog News.
On Arsenal not taking their chances and whether it is a worrying trend…
It is always worrying in football when you are not efficient with your goal scoring opportunities and I think if we zoom out a little and look objectively, that is the right analysis that we create a lot of goal scoring opportunities. It is a combination today of good goalkeeping and finishing that is on very thin margins, we hit the cross bar twice, we force their goalkeeper to make some really good saves. It is a combination of those two things. I am certain if we continue to create we will score goals.
On Hacken catching Arsenal with switches of play behind the full-backs…
It was very clear that it was an area they tried to be opportunistic with, almost hitting passes blind into that space behind our full-backs on the diagonal. Yeah, it was a pattern, it happened three times in the game and we need to defend that situation better.
On Leah Williamson not starting the game…
That was more a physical decision due to events that happened in the week.
On bringing Maanum on for Kafaji at half-time…
That was a tactical decision, both in attack and defence it was a tactical decision.
On putting the result behind them ahead of Manchester City on Sunday…
This game here is half-time, there is nothing decided tonight. We take this game back to London in front of our home fans. But now we need to park this game, we need to refresh and recover and look forward to the game against Man City, so we need to be mentally strong. When we leave this stadium tonight, this game here is no longer to think about, we think about Man City and then we can think about Hacken again.
1.Zinsberger, 2.Fox (26.Wienroither '70), 3.Wubben-Moy (6.Williamson '70), 5.L.Codina, 11.McCabe; 10.Little(c), 32.Cooney-Cross; 9.Mead (19.Foord '70), 16.Kafaji (12.Maanum HT), 8.Mariona; 23.Russo (25.Blackstenius '70).
Unused: 13.Walti, 14.van Domselaar, 22.Kuhl, 40.Williams, 56.Godfrey, 60.Harbert, 62.Reid.
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