At times yesterday(especially the first half), i think we looked a bit like De Zerbi's Brighton stylistically. We actually had more possession than Arsenal in the first half, at the Emirates, which was pretty surprising to me. The concept of "artificial transition", you can look it up. I'm not a football expert, but I've learned that from Tifo(JJ Bull, John Mackenzie...) - they explained De Zerbi's tactics in detail.
We tried to be very patient and slow in the build up, bait Arsenal to press heavily, and then open up the space to counter by beating the press - that's the artificial transition. That's what De Zerbi's Brighton does, and does it very effectively. I think Guardiola even praised De Zerbi for it and said he loves how Brighton plays and that they're very tricky to play against, but I don't think he explained it in detail what he meant by that.
One thing I wanted to add and almost forgot. I don't know how Ten Hag wants us to be the best transition team in the world and have Antony in the team at the same time. That is a heavy contradiction. Antony kills counter attacking opportunities like no other, he's very slow with the ball at his feet, indecisive and not nearly direct enough.
We also lack a player(midfielder) who can carry the ball and is an excellent dribbler(actually comfortable with the ball at his feet and can evade pressure/tackles - Frenkie de Jong archetype), but I'm going to complain about that until I eventually get banned from this forum because of spamming it, (hope mods tolerate me
), or until my death.