Tottenham’s 1-0 friendly win over Arsenal shows how Thomas Frank is already making a big impact at Spurs

If you were even looking for an approach to the blood and the thunder of a derby of North London of 6,000 miles away from home, you would not have achieved it in the 1-0 victory of Tottenham Arsenal In Hong Kong. The large heavyweights may have confronted, but this was little more than a sparring competition, both parties had a lot of reserve for the real collisions.

As such, this afternoon during the indexing of events on the field would be unwise, the more considering that the field on Kai Tak Sports Park seemed more related to a coastal grassland than the Emirates or Tottenham’s land. Have the Shanked Shots of Kai Havertz And Martin Odegaard tells us that their shooting boots cannot be seen for fourteen days and changing the Premier League season? Maybe, but maybe 16 shots that were in a goal, perhaps more indicative of the play surface than something else.

If there was only a part of the game where we could take that into account! But wait, there is that, and perhaps the only meaningful insight that we have taken from this game, when the ball was in the penalty box was bumped from those quadrants on the corner of the field. Tottenham’s glass jaw was never more clearer last season than from set pieces, a facet of the game that seemed surprisingly uninteresting for Ange Postecoglou, because his side allowed 27 of them to be converted into goals in the course of his two seasons of Premier League football.

Such shy for dead balls would never continue with Thomas Frank the leadership. His side of Brentford had long since identified set pieces as a hidden weapon where they could torment the best of the Premier League, Arsenal among them, and the immediate swoop to get Andreas Georgson Manchester United At the appointment of Frank spoke with a side that was determined to do more when the ball was out of the game.

Nobody knows the value of high -quality corner delivery better than Arsenal, who scored 12 of them in the last two seasons. And yet the Gunners seemed powerless to prevent two of them from striking the posts of David Raya in a devastating first half. Pedro Porro began bending one over the large herd gathered on the front pole, the ball bounced just outside the goal line before hit the stenchion, while Mohamed Kudus on the opposite flank was one with such a cruelty that it flew back from the post only for Richarlison to guide the goal.

Raya seemed to be completely rattling to be the receiving end of what the Ben White treatment could be called, traces placed a white shirt on the Arsenal -keeper and tested his confidence in coming to balls that flew threateningly at him. Would the fuss he felt after those corners explained the sloppy pass the Spaniard in the central midfield on the tranquility of the tranquility, Myles Lewis-Skelly His pocket picked by Richarlison before Pape Matar Sarr drove the only goal of the game from the reach. In a Premier League match, it would certainly have been a difficult wait until that goal was confirmed because Richarlison’s challenge was assessed from every possible perspective for proof of a trip. Instead, the Spurscontingent had something to cheer.

As far as Arsenal is concerned, there is probably not too much to worry about when it comes to their own set pieces, even when 13 corners do not have much stress on the goal of Spurs. First of all, they are without the best set of player in the world, Gabriel Magalhaes, an injury issue that flared up early in the previous season. Forty percent of the XG & 43% of the objectives that Arsenal granted from set pieces in the Premier League came after the Big Brazilian tore his hamstring. By the time of their season opener at Manchester United, he should be good to go. And as there were questions about a possible Richarlison error for the Tottenham target, Var would certainly have looked a long, difficult look at the extent to which Raya was impeded when one of those corners resulted in goals in a good game.

Yet for Tottenham this is a sign of meaningful and significant improvement. A team that spent two years giving up cheap goals because they were not dealing with set -theater pieces, has brought one of the best to exploit them. It is already displayed.