{"id":89635,"date":"2025-11-27T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/kimmich-criticizes-arsenal-they-depend-on-long-balls-and-set-pieces\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:40:53","slug":"kimmich-criticizes-arsenal-they-depend-on-long-balls-and-set-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/kimmich-criticizes-arsenal-they-depend-on-long-balls-and-set-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmich criticizes Arsenal: &#8220;They depend on long balls and set pieces&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"Joshua Kimmich has expressed his opinion on who has been the most complicated rival for Bayern Munich this season, despite the recent 3-1 defeat against Arsenal in the Champions League.\n\nThe Bayern&#8217;s German midfielder surprisingly considers Paris Saint-Germain to be the most challenging team, highlighting their style of play as the main differentiating factor.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think PSG was the toughest. Especially the way they play.<\/p><cite>Joshua Kimmich<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBayern suffered their first defeat of the season at the Emirates Stadium, with goals from Jurri\u00ebn Timber, Noni Madueke, and Gabriel Martinelli.\n\nAlthough Bayern defeated PSG 2-1 earlier this month, Kimmich feels that the Parisian team presented a greater threat and a more football-oriented game.\n\nKimmich, when asked if Arsenal was the toughest team Bayern had faced, responded negatively, arguing that Arsenal has a different approach.\n\nThe midfielder described Arsenal as a team that &#8220;relies on set pieces&#8221;, that &#8220;loves to play long balls&#8221; and &#8220;fights for second balls&#8221;.\n\nKimmich emphasized that the match against PSG was more similar to a football game, while the match against Arsenal focused more on game management and duels.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1127%2Fr1581438_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Joshua Kimmich was unimpressed by Arsenal despite the 3-1 win over Bayern Munich.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Joshua Kimmich no qued\u00f3 impresionado por el Arsenal a pesar de la victoria por 3-1 sobre el Bayern de M\u00fanich.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nTimber&#8217;s goal came after a corner from Bukayo Saka, while Martinelli&#8217;s third goal was the result of a long ball on the counterattack.\n\nKimmich&#8217;s comments come after Arsenal coach Arteta claimed his team beat the &#8220;best team in Europe&#8221; in Bayern Munich.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Kimmich has expressed his opinion on who has been the most complicated rival for Bayern Munich this season, despite the recent 3-1 defeat against Arsenal in the Champions League. The Bayern&#8217;s German midfielder surprisingly considers Paris Saint-Germain to be the most challenging team, highlighting their style of play as the main differentiating factor. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,791,10771,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-89635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-bayern-munich","10":"tag-joshua-kimmich","11":"tag-psg"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}