The feeling at the time was we would be better equipped to deal with the Gunners in this Emirates FA Cup third-round tie, because Amorim will have had some precious time on the training ground, instilling his methods into the squad.
Certainly, Arteta acknowledges he has already noticed changes in the style being adopted under the Portuguese coach and is ready for a fresh challenge this time around.
“They play a little bit different with the personnel that they use,” he said at a press conference on Friday. “The location of certain players.
“The characteristics of the players, at the end, dictates as well what they do, where they have more threats on both sides, two feet in behind, because that’s, at the end, what determines the behaviours of a team.
“It is different, the last few weeks, to when we played them here at home, so I’m expecting a few different things.”
