Form is temporary, class is permanent.
My man will be back with the goals soon enough.
My man will be back with the goals soon enough.
It’s not about scoring:Form is temporary, class is permanent.
My man will be back with the goals soon enough.
Football is more than just doing nothing for the 87 minutes, and then make a great final pass/finish a great goal.
In these minutes, you have to
1) get the team from your own box to the half way line
2) from the half way line to the opponent box
3) finding a way to break down the opponent defence
4) to pass the ball into the 6 yard box with your striker unmarked.
5) finish the chance
Without 1) to 4), how could you possibly going to get 5)?
Look at how we struggle to even get across the half way line against liverpool. We need more technical/skillful players in the team, with better passing ability, close control.....in order to complete 1) to 4), creating chances after chances.
Having auba and laca on the pitch is like 2 man down in that process, that’s why we failed to create anything.
If you create enough quality chances, your team WILL score. And it does not even require good finishing ability. Anyone can finish off those chances.
I was against the signing of auba, laca and Özil back then. And never liked Nketiah. Simply because they are the type of players who are only good at 5) (near the final stage of getting the goal). But they are completely useless in the other 87 minutes. We need more Sanchez, Van Persie, Cazorla, Nasri, Hleb, Fabregas, Arshavin, Rosicky.....who would make huge impact in creating space/possession/chances/break down opponent’s defence, before we arrived the opponent box.
we're in a very bad place and desperately need goals. We only have ESR and Saka (And Tierney) who can create good opportunities.It’s not about scoring:
Have you even read my post?we're in a very bad place and desperately need goals. We only have ESR and Saka (And Tierney) who can create good opportunities.
Wenger built an attack-first template where scoring was never a problem.
Our current approach requires us to be clinical. Build-up and approach play be dammed.
I’m not saying scoring is not important. It’s just that if you could barely get across the half way line, you wouldn’t create quality chances, if you wouldn’t create chances, you wouldn’t score. And it’s because of that, players like auba/nketiah are completely useless.we're in a very bad place and desperately need goals. We only have ESR and Saka (And Tierney) who can create good opportunities.
Wenger built an attack-first template where scoring was never a problem.
Our current approach requires us to be clinical. Build-up and approach play be dammed.
It's a catch-22. Would you take off the only person who can get you a goal, just so that you can create a goal?Have you even read my post?
Without 1) to 4), you wouldn’t have 5).
Having auba in the team is one man down in the chance creation process.
In modern football, teams are defending more as a unit. And also, the gap between lower position teams and top teams are getting closer, player or tactical-wise.
If you want to break a team down, having enough creative quality is not enough. You also need enough creative quantity.
Iniesta plus Xavi plus Henry, to only have these 3 players on the pitch with 7 defenders behind sitting back, will never going to break a low block, no matter how good they are. You need to have enough creative players in the team.
We don't have creators. We depend upon turnovers in the opposition half mainly. Auba was pulling out goals out of his arse last season to save us.I’m not saying scoring is not important. It’s just that if you could barely get across the half way line, you wouldn’t create quality chances, if you wouldn’t create chances, you wouldn’t score. And it’s because of that, players like auba/nketiah are completely useless.
It’s so ridiculous that we’re playing him on the wing at 31 years old and asking him to track full backs while being our highest paid player.1. Terrible attitude for a captain, and for a player of his ability. He shows no passion, no leadership and, honestly, he doesn't even look like he wants to be on the field. What a hard life he must have, earning so little to do so much...
2. Besides all this, it's actually not his fault that his manager isolates him on the left-wing. You can blame the player for a while, but if you look at it, it's also Arteta's fault. If Auba is to start, start him at striker. If not (whatever the reason might be), just bench him. This is just ridiculous, he literally can't produce there.
Sure but every team needs balance hence why Walcott started regularly in that period because he offered something in behind. Same with Ramsey.“We've created plenty of chances the last 3-4 months.”
I wouldn’t say we have created plenty of chances, not quantity nor quality-wise.
“I've no issue with Saka, ESR, Ödegaard, Pepe, Tierney and Willian. That's a core of players that will create enough chances.”
ESR is not good enough. Pepe is more of an attacking type rather than a creative type of player. Tierney, his style is not for me. Willian, too old, past his best...Anyway, it’s not about their individual creative quality. It’s about whether we would create more chances, by having a setup of (4 of these “creative players”+Auba) or having (5 of these “creative players”), against a block of opponent defenders. And I’m sure the former setup would yield a lot less chances created than the later.
You have a desire to see us play with a bunch of technical skill midgets that never pass the ball over knee height. Basically you want us to be a poor mans Pep side.
We had players like Hleb, Fabregas, Rosicky, Nasri, Arshavin, Cazorla.....
It's a catch-22. Would you take off the only person who can get you a goal, just so that you can create a goal?
As I have said it above. It’s not about how many he could score.Auba will still get you 20 goals a season if you put good players around him see how good he preformed when we played ESR saka Ödegaard put him on wings and he stinks. Stop play him on wings just to force him and laca play its not working and unbalance the whole team.
I agree he not all around good player he box player he can score some nice goals but that about it still i just hope stop play him LWAs I have said it above. It’s not about how many he could score.
It’s about that having him in the team would reduce the chance for us to get across the half way line. Which would reduce the chance of us getting near the opponent box, which would massively reduce the number/quality of chance created, which makes the team score far less than we could.
Auba could have scored 30 goals a season but having him in the team would make our team worse off.
Most of his touches were from kick offs.
Sad to see such a good player played out of position and not being involved in the game. This wouldn't happen under a decent manager.
still saved our season in Europe, and got a hat trick not long ago.Except Auba can't get us goals anymore................. we take him out to replace him with someone like Martinelli who can actually get us goals. Auba has been Özil'd and we need to start thinking of a plan to ease him out of the club.