Country: England
Yeah it’s bizarre. They played with 10 men for all the second half and barely had the ball.
I’d rather a striker at 21 banging in goals than a striker at 21 who can do step overs and dribble.
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Dušan Vlahović
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Country: England
Yeah it’s bizarre. They played with 10 men for all the second half and barely had the ball.
I’d rather a striker at 21 banging in goals than a striker at 21 who can do step overs and dribble.
Rasmi
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Country: England
He scored a goal being deep in their penalty area. Arteta don’t want his strikers in that position as he would leave a gap in midfield. So his penalty area strength is useless for us
Goonger
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Im thinking that myself, you can't judge him on that. At least he won some 'contested' balls, anyone who thinks Auba would win any of those contested balls can't have been watching the same player I've been watching.
His performances at Anfield and Etihad a case in point where I think he actually barely even touched the ball.
Barry
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It's definitely not the best video. In that Napoli match he does some nice hold up play and link passes and also miscontrols it quite a lot. I don't know whether he just had a bad game or if that's typical but the stats suggest the latter... Real question is whether he can improve though and it's his potential that is quite exciting.
I think the other thing to say is that however much we might want him to be an all round front man, he's more of a target man at the moment, very good in and around the box. If we get him, that's what we are getting, initially at least.
Rasmi
Negative Nancy
Country: England
Being all round is overrated. The reason villa fans can’t stand Watkins is he does so much pressing, link up play, drag defenders but he is not in penalty box to put balls away. A strikers job is to score goals and the moment the team is not doing well, the non scoring striker gets grief first. People will say frimino, but his team was winning, when they were not he was replaced by Jota
ArsenesCoatMaker
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If this was true Arteta wouldn't have got his team playing so many crosses. Vlahovic will cover more ground than either Laca or Auba and make the late runs into the box to get on the end of crosses. Also if Vlahovic make opposition drop deep to deal with his runs it will free up more midfield room for our midfielders.
The reason Lacazette is dropping deep isn't merely tactical. He doesn't have the stamina to attack the box
Country: England
Not sure about that, maybe we’ve adapted to Lacazettes strength.
People need to forget about what we’re doing now and think about what we can do with someone of his profile.
Bloodbather
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Country: Turkey
Feel like some people here wouldn't buy Haaland from Salzburg because he didn't have link up play. Shocking eye for talent.
Country: England
Rasmi
Negative Nancy
Country: England
No I would steal be against it cause he has a massive head. He freaks me out
Country: Sweden
Haaland was and is on a completely different level though
Country: Sweden
I agree with this but what should be said about it is that they all (bar Kane maybe) had great technique and quick feet all the way. I don't see that in Vlahovic myself.
Our top scorer is Smith Rowe with 8 goals. I'm taking an absolute gunman up top that bags 20plus a season over a link up guy.
Besides, I think Vlahovic looks pretty good back to goal, he's technique is reminiscent of Kanes. He will improve in that aspect as well, he's only 21.
Besides, I think Vlahovic looks pretty good back to goal, he's technique is reminiscent of Kanes. He will improve in that aspect as well, he's only 21.
bergholt
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Country: Australia
I wonder how much more we'd have to pay for Haaland ahead of Vlahovic - extra 100m?
Rasmi
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Country: England
All joking aside I’m shocked how some people can’t see how desperate we are for a goal scorer. We don’t have one reliable goalscorer and in mid January a midfielder is our top scorer. It’s shocking
Country: Sweden
City won the PL last year. Their top scorer was a midfielder on 12 goals (excl PKs).
Utd 2nd, top scorer 11 goals (excl PKs).
Liverpool's top scorer was Salah on 16 non penalty, but he's the exception here.
Chelsea's top scorer had 6 goals.
No team had more than 2 players reach double digits in non-penalty goals. Of course having a good penalty taker will be important as those goals count as well, but it shouldn't be an issue to find someone in this team to take those. Arteta himself was the main taker as a deep cm.
What all of the above teams do is create loads of chances for everyone and not try to find one single player all the time.
Country: England
Yeah this mythical bagsman that can score 20 and do hold up play AM keeps hoping for is unrealistic.
We have a 20 goal striker in Auba and he looks unconvincing under Arteta, so eye test and data suggests we need something else.
Tsl
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Yeah because scoring 36 league goals the last 1,5 season only makes you a better backup than Nketiah
Of course getting him would improve our chances of top 4
Rasmi
Negative Nancy
Country: England
City scored 83 goals. They also have some of the best attacking midfielders in the world. Instead of going that route, why not go the much easier route football clubs has gone throughout football. Play a reliable goalyas a striker. City also failed to score in the CL final as they couldn’t break Chelsea’s low block.
Country: Wales
No he’s not. Plays on Merseyside and carries a purse.
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