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Player:Elneny
The usual suspects at it again, i got your back @say yes
I’m sorry that was my poor use of English. I meant he is similar to Xhaka in that regard. A fairly slow footballer who has to foul to win the ball.Wtf?
I rate Xhaka but he’s definitely not quick and commits more fouls than anyone in our team.
I don’t get it, he was good today. Why is he getting stick
I’m always rattled when Arsenal don’t win.Clearly rattled.
Will obviously be scapegoated by the usual suspects today, and there’s no doubt he’s in the worst scoring form of his career, but it’s worth remembering he was our man of the match just 5 days ago, and got a great assist this time around. Wasn’t the idiot who got himself a straight red either.
There’s a reason why a manager like Arteta has made him the fulcrum of our attack. It’s the same reason why he won player of the season last year: he’s a great (albeit, not world-class) footballer.
The people who can’t appreciate that are invariably the same people who thought Giroud was a top CF (i.e. utterly clueless), so it’s hard to take any of their criticisms too seriously.
The people who can’t appreciate that are invariably the same people who thought Giroud was a top CF (i.e. utterly clueless), so it’s hard to take any of their criticisms too seriously.
Fair enough if you think we need to upgrade. I wouldn’t be against trading him out myself if we could get someone like Jovic in. However, unless an opportunity like that arises, I think there are far weaker areas of our squad we should be focusing on.While I get your points, he cost us 50m so I doubt we signed him for a few assists here and there. It’s not just this run of form either... His goal scoring record for us is absolutely terrible no matter which way you look at it. Our results away from home have been a disaster and one of the reasons is because his record is so bad. He’s got good feet sometimes and I can sort of see what he adds but there’s a real lack of the X factor to him..
we need to upgrade ASAP.
Good assist, but it's an outlier in his performances to be honest. He works hard, fouls aloft, interestingly can't draw any fouls back to goal when he is the smaller man. Loses too many duels and aerial battles for me and lacking confidence in front of goal. He just looks heavy legged, slow and moany.
At one point he was holding his hamstring. I just want to see Martinelli up top to be honest.
Fair enough if you think we need to upgrade. I wouldn’t be against trading him out myself if we could get someone like Jovic in. However, unless an opportunity like that arises, I think there are far weaker areas of our squad we should be focusing on.
Two aspects of your post I don’t agree on however. First, I don’t think it’s fair to blame our away form in the league on Laca. The team as a whole has been terrible on the road for a while now, and I’m pretty sure the results have actually been worse when he’s been unavailable.
Second, it’s not accurate to say his productivity has been terrible even before this run. Despite having to share his minutes at CF with Aubameyang, his numbers last year (when he won player of the season) were great. He’s one of only eight players to have hit over 30 goals and assists in a season since we moved to the Emirates, and when you consider minutes played, it was comparable to almost any other great season an attacking player has had at this club in that time. I posted about it in more detail here: https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/alexandre-lacazette-out.31032/page-27#post-4840401