{"id":210073,"date":"2026-02-10T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210073"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:04:30","slug":"do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210073","title":{"rendered":"Do Arsenal back-ups lack &#39;dark arts&#39; know-how to close out games?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emi Buendia&#8217;s 95th-minute winner for Aston Villa has been replaying in my brain for the last 48 hours.  The Gunners then hold on for a draw.  This chasm between what did and did not happen highlights a crucial area for Mikel Arteta&#8217;s team if they are to win the Premier League title: the ability of our entire squad to execute game management&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-112253604.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emi Buendia&#8217;s 95th-minute winner for Aston Villa has been replaying in my brain for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210073-do-arsenal-back-ups-lack-dark-arts-know-how-to-close-out-games-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}