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Nicolas Jover New Set-Piece Tactics At Arsenal & Anders Torstensson Tactics At Mjällby AIF 2025
Today, we have a set-piece analysis article on Arsenal's new corner kicks for 2025/2026 and a tactical analysis of Anders Torstensson tactics at Mjällby AIF in 2025.
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In the last few years, Arsenal have been considered one of the best teams in the world from set pieces, if not the best.
In the last three Premier League seasons, Nicolas Jover‘s side were the top scorers from corner kicks, netting 12, 12 and 11 times, respectively, in order from 2022/2023-2024/2025.
They have common principles that are always applied, which makes it easier for their players, especially when they get numerous corners in the same match.
Despite applying almost the same principles, the Gunners make small adjustments, if needed, depending on the opponent.
This makes it difficult for opponents while remaining easy for them because the adjustments are always small and simple.
However, having your own variations is one of the most important principles in set pieces.
It is important to remain somewhat unpredictable, especially since many teams have been thinking about how to stop them, especially in attacking corners.
That’s what happened in their pre-season games against AC Milan, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, and Villarreal.
This tactical analysis is a set-piece analysis of Arsenal’s new tactics, which have been merged with the old ones in attacking corners from their pre-season matches ahead of the 2025/2026 campaign.
This has provided a new dimension to the Arsenal set-piece tactics.
In the 2020s, the Swedish Allsvenskan has been very competitive overall, but in the end, the result stayed the same for most years.
Over the last couple of years, Malmö FF have won four out of five Swedish top-flight titles, with only BK Häcken being able to win one in between so far this decade.
Things have changed drastically this season, however, with Malmö currently sitting in fourth place, 10 points behind the current league leaders, Mjällby AIF.
MAIF have played in the lower leagues of Swedish football for most of their history.
The club got promoted to the Allsvenskan for the first time in 2010 and stayed there for five years before getting relegated back to the Superettan five years later.
From there on, things quickly derailed.
In their first season back in the second tier, MAIF got relegated straight to the third division, had huge financial troubles, and nearly had to file for bankruptcy.
However, they turned things around and got promoted back to the Superettan in 2019.
They instantly won the league in 2020 and got back to the Allsvenskan for the second time in the club’s history.
MAIF stayed in the lower midfield of the league for the first couple of years but developed nicely under manager Anders Torstensson in his second stint at the club.
He finished fifth in the 2024 season and is currently leading the league by four points after 19 games in the 2025 season.
In this tactical analysis, we will examine the MAIF style of play under Anders Torstensson, how they are dominating the league, and their near future, including whether the small club has the chance to actually win their first-ever piece of silverware this season.
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