Freddie Ljungberg: Arsenal Under-23s boss compared to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola

Freddie Ljungberg: Arsenal Under-23s boss compared to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola
The style of football Freddie Ljungberg is implementing at Arsenal’s Under-23 side has been compared to the way Pep Guardiola gets his teams to play.Ljungberg won five major honours as an Arsenal player between 1998-2007 and has gone on to coach the north London club at youth level – the Under-15 side in the 2016/17 season before coming back to coach the Under-23s in June 2018.2

Ljungberg is Arsenal’s Under-23 boss

And Arsenal youngster Daniel Ballard, 19, commended the Swede for the way he analyses the game.Ballard said:“He [Ljungberg] looks at the game in such a unique and different way.“He often uses Guardiola and the way he plays, and tries to sort of implement that with us.2

Guardiola has enjoyed a huge amount of success as manager of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City

“Sometimes it looks risky and it is difficult, but when it pays off the football is really good and we have some really good results under him.”But despite the Guardiola comparisons, the results on the pitch for the Under-23 side have not been similar to the one the Manchester City boss usually experiences. The young Gunners are currently seventh in Premier League 2, having won six, drawn five and lost five of their opening 16 games.They look particularly weak in defence having conceded 33 goals during their 16 league games this season, which is just one more than they have scored. Only two teams have conceded more in PL2.

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Freddie Ljungberg (Image: Naomi Baker/Getty Images) In fact, centre-back Daniel Ballard has gone as far as to compare the 41-year-old to Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola. "He looks at the game in such a unique and different way," said Ballard, while discussing Ljungberg's style of play.
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Right now the two main candidates appear to be Juventus boss Max Allegri, and former captain Mikel Arteta. The former has a track record of success in Italian football, while the latter has yet to take charge of a club but has spent two years as assistant to Pep Guardiola at Man City.
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Arsenal U-23's defender Daniel Ballard has compared Freddie Ljungberg's management style to one of the modern greats in Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola. Ljungberg returned to North London earlier last summer but as the manager of Arsenal's Under-23 side.
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Freddie Ljungberg: Arsenal Under-23s boss compared to

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Newport boss Flynn in WhatsApp group with Henry, Arteta and Ljungberg after training for coaching badges… and compared to Pep Guardiola The 38-year-old is preparing his side to face Tranmere in

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Arsenal U23 coach, Freddie Ljungberg has drawn comparisons to Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola. A former Gunners player, Ljungberg has won five major trophies with the club over the course of 9 seasons, including the invincible campaign.9 He has taken up the role of the club's youth coach at the Emirates coming back and is […]
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Ballard sees the Manchester City boss' approach in the Swedish coach who has backed striker Eddie Nketiah to shine if needed against BATE Borisov in the Europa League Ljungberg is in his first
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