lufere7
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Player:Martinelli
More likely than not ending with 20 G+A in all competitions, pretty tidy output all things considered, arriving to the PL in one of our most unstable periods ever and not being a clear starter.
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Nicolas Pepe: 2019/20 Performances
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Player:Martinelli
Country: England
Doesn’t look that fast when he starts sprinting but then you see the ground he’s covered and you’re like
Quietly starting to get respectable numbers.. End product is the most important part so great sign.
Eaststander74
Jury Lite II
He's getting it, I think. Starting to understand that he doesn't have to show his full repertoire every week for him to be productive. It'll just come if he remains calm and plays percentages.
GDeep™
League is very weak
Normally you’ll expect a big second season from these types, and I do from Pepe, has it in him, just worried about the African Nations being a big enough distraction and hinderance to really knock him off his development.
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
No no no. What are we paying Özil 300k a week for? Pépé already cuts inside too early and too often. Doing what you suggested makes him much easier to play against.
The space and threat is in wide areas, as you can see from the number of goals we are scoring down the left. Our right side is nowhere near as productive yet.
Henry did an excellent piece a couple years back on Monday night football about Pep. There’s a reason Barca haven’t come close to winning the CL since they stopped using high pressing wide forwards, and every team that’s won it since, has.
The reason we struggle to hold possession is because our forwards are poor when pressed and our midfield is technically very average / physically weak.
Those issues need addressing entirely separately
Make
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Country: Spain
Player:Ødegaard
I'm really glad with Pepe, he has improve so well in the latest matches, I think that Pepe in the next year could be a huge player on the RW
Country: England
Player:Saka
I think he's already getting to a level now where to be called a flop is straight up incorrect. He's productive, he's learning, he's great at occupying several defenders at a time. His shooting and crossing technique is really good.
We'd all like to see him run at defenders and beat his man higher up, as well as getting a few more goals, but surely we can all agree he's now giving us more reasons to get excited.
We'd all like to see him run at defenders and beat his man higher up, as well as getting a few more goals, but surely we can all agree he's now giving us more reasons to get excited.
Zaza
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Still insist we were right in signing him over Zaha. His potential is obvious to anyone with half a brain.
He can run in behind, create and score. Pepe will be immense for us. The sticking point like someone said earlier might be AFCON getting pushed back to Jan.
He can run in behind, create and score. Pepe will be immense for us. The sticking point like someone said earlier might be AFCON getting pushed back to Jan.
Country: Nigeria
Player:Saliba
Charlie Nicholas with all his absurd opinions. He does realise that Pepe and Marty are in the opposite wing, right?
MikeVinna
Established Member
Yeah Martin Nelly does not work on the right. He played one game there and was terrible. If anything we should be playing them both when given an opportunity to experiment..
Dokaka
AM's resident Hammer
I think it's fair to say he hasn't lived up to his pricetag yet. He's generally been pretty good when starting out on the right, but considering what you paid you'd ideally want to see a lot more from him. He's only 24 though, arrived under a coach who looked lost and now has to adapt again to a new coach.
If he starts off next season poorly, that's probably when you have to start really worrying.
If he starts off next season poorly, that's probably when you have to start really worrying.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Charlie had a mare there 
The issue at the minute is Arteta is compensating for our left side...we have a left back who is a winger and a forward who can't really dribble playing on the left wing...if we had this playing as a normal left hand side, Saka might be significantly struggling defensively and Auba would be making us all want to claw our own eyes out trying to beat people with skill!
Arteta has hid their weaknesses and increased their strengths...Xhaka drops to left back, allowing Saka to basically play as a winger in possession, which in turn allows Auba a free role on the left, to time is runs into the box.
This works very well, but because Xhaka is moving into an inverted left back spot, the whole teams shape has to move to compensate...Pepe who should be allowed freedom to stay quite far up the pitch, where his technique can cause massive damage for us, has to stay a bit deeper on the right to make up for the freedom the left side is getting...this is fine for now, but hopefully when Tierney gets fit and Saka moves to left wing, Arteta can sort the formation out...we can stop having to hinder Nico so much, he could become our most dangerous attacking player in a system built to his strength.
Don't care how he did under Emery, everyone was **** then...confident he will be a massive success here, as he is already putting up numbers in a system not to his benefit and just after moving to a new country (people shouldn't forget this, some people need time...Pires went from kinda "meh" in his first season, to the best winger in the country in season number two)
Very happy we signed him.
The issue at the minute is Arteta is compensating for our left side...we have a left back who is a winger and a forward who can't really dribble playing on the left wing...if we had this playing as a normal left hand side, Saka might be significantly struggling defensively and Auba would be making us all want to claw our own eyes out trying to beat people with skill!
Arteta has hid their weaknesses and increased their strengths...Xhaka drops to left back, allowing Saka to basically play as a winger in possession, which in turn allows Auba a free role on the left, to time is runs into the box.
This works very well, but because Xhaka is moving into an inverted left back spot, the whole teams shape has to move to compensate...Pepe who should be allowed freedom to stay quite far up the pitch, where his technique can cause massive damage for us, has to stay a bit deeper on the right to make up for the freedom the left side is getting...this is fine for now, but hopefully when Tierney gets fit and Saka moves to left wing, Arteta can sort the formation out...we can stop having to hinder Nico so much, he could become our most dangerous attacking player in a system built to his strength.
Don't care how he did under Emery, everyone was **** then...confident he will be a massive success here, as he is already putting up numbers in a system not to his benefit and just after moving to a new country (people shouldn't forget this, some people need time...Pires went from kinda "meh" in his first season, to the best winger in the country in season number two)
Very happy we signed him.
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Tomb Bombadil
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Starts to play better and better but he still has a long way to go.
Another player I thought with similiar talent and skills was Lozano. Transfer from PSV to Napoli for €38m. Just played 700mins and has no place anymore under Gattuso. So could have gone worse.
Another player I thought with similiar talent and skills was Lozano. Transfer from PSV to Napoli for €38m. Just played 700mins and has no place anymore under Gattuso. So could have gone worse.
Eaststander74
Jury Lite II
Is Nicholas a wotless cvnt? Probably.
morpho
Established Member
Probably not
morpho
Established Member
6 goals and 8 assist in under 1900 min. Mostly under Emery. In his first season. Com'on people...
Coolin
Doesn't appreciate the mighty Nacho
He’s developing nicely, not as quickly as we all hoped but that’s sometimes how it goes in football.
I would like to see him make more runs in behind. His game is very much ball-to-feet at the moment, which explains why he has to beat 3 markers just to get into the box.
I would like to see him make more runs in behind. His game is very much ball-to-feet at the moment, which explains why he has to beat 3 markers just to get into the box.
Country: Nigeria
Player:Saliba
In the past few matches, I've seen him make some decent runs in behind, but his teammates have failed to find him
Country: England
They get ignored...a lot.
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