""Ten years ago. I wasn't here but 10 years ago, I said 'it is a massive thing to do that' and I started to have a vision, try to implement a method and try to be surrounded by the best people to deliver that.""
""I went to City with the best manager in the world and I could see where we could have improvements and it was clear because at some point I was doing that and I wasn't the best person in the world to do that," he said."
""So if I am not the best person in the world to do that and the best method to do it, there are ways to improve it. And you could see that straight afterwards what started to happen.""
Arsenal have the best record in Europe from dead-ball situations since the start of last season, scoring 23 times. The team have scored 37 goals from corners domestically in the same period, 16 more than any other Premier League side. Arsenal top the Premier League and have three wins from three in European competition after a 4-0 win over Atlético Madrid. Mikel Arteta began planning a set-piece method around 2015-16 while taking coaching badges and developed the approach further after working at Manchester City and recruiting set-piece specialist Nicolas Jover in 2021. Arteta links set-piece obsession with defensive, transition and chaos management.
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