That's 9 defenders in their box with 7 of them effectively marking 3 players, with one keeping an eye on Digne. You can get pictures like that for a few other goals we've scored as well because teams seem to have decided that the way to stop us is this really low block defence. Shooting from the edge f the box is our response to that change and means there's going to have to be a bit of a rethink.
Would be worth getting Youri in space at the edge of the box as much as possible - not only is he probably the one you'd want trying to ping it from 25 yards, he's also the one that you'd fancy to have the awareness to slip it through to Malen / Rogers / Watkins if they try to deal with the hit-it-early strategy by charging out to block the shot.
We do quite a lot, he's there in the image I've linked and he had at least 4 chances to get a shot away in the game himself (a couple he took on and couple he didn't), McGinn, Onana and Barkley take up that position a lot as well (and have a few goals between them to show for it).
The next 'step' is to try to create a gap between the defence and midfield (so around the penalty spot) and get someone drifting into that space, so if the midfield do push out to block the shot we can try to find someone in there. If we start doing that teams are going to have to start defending higher and we can get back to the sort of goals we were scoring a lot of in the season before last. Being able to do all 3 (i.e create chances at the edge of the box, the penalty spot or the 6 yard box) gives us the versatility to adapt to how teams try to defend against us.
