Look at this Brighton press😂😂

They deserved the win unfortunately. We’ll be better after the break.

They were better than us in every aspect. They wanted it more, and yeah they got the better result. They have a very good coach aswell

You were massively outplayed

They knew what they wanted

Passing was too slow.

That's how we play unfortunately. Every game. The same reason teams always get enough time to sit in the low block

It’s either you pass faster or have a press resistant ball carrier like MLS, the difference between MLS and Rice is that MLS is press resistant and with low center of gravity meaning it’s difficult to dispossess him, so you will either need to foul him or let him go.

This is how to kill this Brighton's press . A Skelly or Partey through middle pass ends at the back of the net

Rice is basically useless when u press him that’s where u see limited he actually is

There is nothing in this press . Our players were just all shaky. A pedri will beat this press anyday

Saliba would eat them alive man People forget the best defender itw isnt playing

If the game was played 100 times over, Brighton wins over and over. I have never seen a press so compact like that in my entire life watching football. Wherever we played a pass, there was a player already waiting to intercept... Brighton deserve my applause 👏👏👏👏👏👏

now you all got to know why simon starts ahead of raya

Skelly can potentially beat this press. I still don't believe Arteta didn't bring him in

Like that was the whole plan Brighton exploit our inverting backs and made sure we couldn't play at the back Same thing they did to Aston villa too

On a good day, Brighton will put 6 goals into your net 😂

Rice on the ball is hard to watch.

Brighton players in the dressing room before the game:

The only explanation

Unforced errors everywhere 🤣🤣 We no come this game biko, we have played through worse press. From the beginning of the game we were not in that field 👍🏾

Most times we actually beat the press but our boys failed to move the ball. They all played badly

Miles Lewis Skelly should be playing games like these. And Bruno the ones where teams are sitting deep. Wrong team selection yesterday.

United boys won press like that Never

Arsenal players played like they all wore timberland. Very slow and unnecessary extra touches. Poor movement off the ball too. I hope we face similar test like Brighton soonest. These players should look at themselves again

The thing with Arteta is he always likes to demand more from his team and i don't think he'll accept a mediocre performance like that. Let's see after the international break.

Only Chelsea survived this press among the big guns.

The problem throughout this whole game was our attackers, I kid you not. We have very slow attackers who, even when you give them the ball in space, struggle to beat their man 1v1. They slow the attack down, wait for the defenders to recover and allow the opposition to get back into shape. Saka had about three of those opportunities yesterday and ended up taking a shot after slowing the play down. This kind of press only works when the opposition has a poor attack. They did the same against Chelsea and conceded three, then did it against United and conceded two in 20 minutes, as bad as United are right now. It’s a very easy setup to punish when you have good attackers. Believe me, if they play like that against City, they’re conceding five. They might score too, but they’re conceding five.

Our useless outlet for longs was inexistent. Havertz

Red to learn from peak Liverpool. If teams hit this hard a press they didn’t keep trying to pass it out, they went direct in to Salah from Allison which is how he got his assists. Saka and Tzolis should have been finding space for a long pass. Do this and the press stops

This was very hard to watch.... I know teams will start implementing this. I hope Arteta works on a counter.

They should have stopped trying to play out from the back

Brighton press or Arsenal poor play So you think Man city won’t calm the tempo of the game Smh

We actually were dealing with it well, but the midfield of Bruno and rice were making a whole lot of errors.

The secret to high press is to move the ball faster. Quick easy to beat the press

No room for mistakes

They bullied us

Very good lesson for Arteta. I hope he tells himself the truth and actually learns from this. We will need this lesson when we face Bayern and Barca later. Better get slapped now than later when the games are more important

Bruh 9/10 times rice plays it to bruno g then bruno g goes to raya and raya goes to cala Wtf were we doing

Omg Lewis skelly would eat 😭