7 Reasons Aaron Ramsey's Injury Crippled Arsenal's Season

5. €œNobody Quite Credits Barcá Enough For Their Work OFF The Ball.€

So Aaron Ramsey doesn't play for FC Barcelona, he plays for Arsenal. However, if you watch his performance off the ball throughout this entire season, you wouldn't know. He is the living epitome of the hyper-aggressive pressing play that Barcá became famous for at their peak in 2011. What made Barcelona so effin' difficult to play against at their pomp was the fact that, during the 52 commutative seconds you would have possession against them, you would find it borderline impossible to turn it into an attack of any value because the 9 other players in your team would be behind the ball and you'd have 3 or 4 red and blue jerseys biting at you like a plague of locusts before you'd even considered what to do! Even then, if you managed a decent pass, Sergio Busquets would fall over and you'd have a free kick to contend with. Back to the drawing board, Pepe. On a serious note, the brilliance of Pep's Barcelona was that of constant pressure. Without the ball for so long, when you finally won it, Barcá would swarm upon you until you gave it back. When Arsenal were at their playing peak this season, during the Autumn, Ramsey (and Wilshere) followed this same approach. Tirelessly running back and forth across the pitch, when Arsenal lost the ball, they would immediately snap it back from the opposition before they could get the chance to play it out of their half and relieve pressure. It's a quality Arsenal have sorely lacked in his absence. It has become that much easier to defend.