Arteta's set-piece masterplan 10 years in the making

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta explains how he helped Man City and Pep Guardiola improve set-pieces a decade ago

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00:00At what point did you hold in on the fact that this would have been such a rich source of goals and so good for your team?

00:09Ten years ago.

00:12Explain.

00:14Ten years ago, I said, I think it has to be, I wasn't here, but ten years ago I said,

00:19it's a massive thing to do that and I started to have a vision and try to implement a method

00:25and try to be surrounded by the best people to deliver that.

00:28I went to City with the best manager in the world and I could see where we could have improvements

00:33and it was clear because at some point I was doing that and I wasn't the best person in the world to do it.

00:38So if I'm not the best person in the world to do it and the best method to do it, there are ways to improve it.

00:43And you could see that straight afterwards what started to happen.

00:47But it's not only obsessive that, I'm the same.

00:49The defensive part, in every transition I want to be the best when it comes to chaos,

00:53I want to be the best when it comes to positional attack, the best when it comes to low blocks, the best.

00:58And that's the eagerness to constantly find ways to develop your team, to evolve your team

01:03and to give your players more tools to be more unpredictable and especially more efficient.

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