Arsenal vs Swansea City: 5 factors that will decide the outcome

#4 Will Swansea sit deep?

Swansea have let in 10 goals from 9 matches

Over the years, Swansea have gone to the top teams and tried to play possession-based football. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. However, they have strayed away from that style of play recently.

This season, the Welsh side went to Tottenham and sat back for the entire game and just defended deep, and came away with a 0-0 draw. This was unlike Swansea though, and it will be interesting to see if this continues.

If Swansea do sit deep, it will mean more space for Arsenal’s two central midfielders, presumably, Granit Xhaka and Aaron Ramsey, and they will have to be smart and creative, something their North London counterparts were not able to do.