- Howe showed her ability to adapt during Newcastle's semifinal victory over Arsenal
- Newcastle boss modified his tactics on both legs with an impressive effect
- Listen now: Everything is starting! We need Arsenal's personality! This needle is what the Premier League is about!
Newcastle's triumph over Arsenal was a semifinal with two of the most proud nights of Eddie Howe's management race. A double bill against Mikel Arteta and Howe produced two tactical master classes.
We live in a time when Ruben Amorim and Ange Postecoglou tell us that they cannot change their tactics because they must remain faithful to their philosophies, but Howe showed that the best managers adapt and can transform into different forms and styles to obtain The work. Made, even when your best players are lost.
Newcastle had never won a game without Bruno Guimaraes on the team since his debut three years ago, but went to the Emirates stadium in the first leg without him to face a team that was undefeated in 13 games and inflicted his only defeat at the house of the season.
Howe brought Joe Willock aside to replace the suspended Guimaraes and had the rhythm of bombing forward with Anthony Gordon and Jacob Murphy while attacked as a fugitive train every time Alexander Isak fell to pick up the ball and pressed them very high.
Arsenal could not deal with that. Gabriel and William Saliba, the two centrals, were obliged to seem uncomfortable and did not want to get tight in Isak because they know it is one of the few players that can be ashamed with their rhythm and the rest of the four back posts. Do not deal with the attack of the races from the depths.
Howe makes the key decision in 65 minutes in the opening game to take the Willock, Murphy and Isak trio, with Newcastle two goals, and fell five. Howe pointed from the bank so that his team was two banks of five with no one in front.
Eddie Howe produced tactical master classes while Newcastle beat Arsenal in the Cábao Cup
The use of Joe Willock Howe in the first semifinal stage created problems for the defense of Arsenal
He changed a five butt but removed Alexander Isak and adopted him for the second leg.
Arsenal could not find a path and gave Howe the belief, with its side two goals, which could adapt this system for the second leg.
This formation gave them the additional advantage of the additional height of the Fabian Schar, Sven Botman and Dan Burn plants to help deal with Arsenal's pieces, but Howe also gave special instructions to Schar to press Declan Rice every time the gunners They tried to build from behind.
Newcastle gave the Arsenal that there was no chance to breathe as they became man to man in his press.
Gordon got and sat in Saliba with Isak in Gabriel when Guimaraes had the task of marking Man Thomas Party. Sandro Tonali picked up Martin Odegaard, so Schar pushed from the midline to the edge of the box to make sure Rice, the extra man of arsenal in the midfield, was not free to collect the ball.
If the Arsenal invested his backs, Jurien Timber and Myles Lewis-Skellly, then the end of Newcastle Jacob Murphy to the right and the side of Ala Lewis Hall to the left got into the center to deal with danger.
At the beginning of the game, Rice received a pass from his guardian just for Schar to go out with him. Gordon was ready for it and almost picked up the loose ball before Rice recovered its composure to clarify the danger.
Arsenal did not learn his lesson and Newcastle punished them exactly the same way for the second goal at the beginning of the second.
They could not find an exit. Even when the frustrated Odeegaard dropped deeply to try to build the attacks, he was also marked by Tonali.
Fabian Schar and Sven Botman were part of a defense arsenal who fought to break
Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimaraes played key roles in the heart of the Newcastle field
Howe only starts working in the system since Monday, but that is not unusual these days. The experience of playing in the Champions League would have facilitated that your team develops a plan for high -level opposition in different competitions in just a few days.
There was total unit in its performance. The manager's plan worked perfectly, the players executed him wonderfully and the fans played their part creating the hostility necessary to make Arsenal feel even more uncomfortable.
When they meet Liverpool in the final, Howe will need to find the correct tactical plan again, and players need to find energy and desire, demolish their opponents as they did with Arsenal and win their first national trophy in 70 years.
