The German side concentrated on stopping Arsenal's right-sided attacks and preventing the ball making its way easily to Jorginho in midfield
“It is extremely fluid. You can recognise a lot of automatic, but also free-running moves,” said about ’s game on the ball before his Bayern Munich side faced them on Wednesday in the second leg of a quarter-finals. The German head coach’s words were ones of admiration, but also of homework well done. Tuchel preceded this by explaining Arsenal ’s different build-up patterns and their combinations down their right, the opposition’s left, through , and .
“With Saka and Odegaard, they always attack on the right, at least the beginning of many attacks, which sometimes end up on the left,” Tuchel said before the game. “But Arsenal try to shift the game to the right side first, to create an overlap there with Odegaard and often via the right-back, Ben White, to either get through there or to play a quick switch with runners in the left half-space or the left wing.
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