TheArsenalis
Well-Known Member
My bad you already address the reasons, I was so fast to reply after seeing the 'he played as lone forward' as he ddnt really, never had. Either rues or or someone else was up his arse. Against city it looked as if he was a target man that not his cup. But you already know that. My badHe did so at Dortmund and was one of the most prolific and dangerous lone strikers in Europe's top flights, but 'cause you say so he can't
This isn't even about contesting Auba having had a rather bad game, or that he clearly profits from Lacazette being on the pitch...
...but maybe don't look at football so narrow with such one dimensional statements. Some people clearly don't get that systems and movement play a big role in football, and that whatever is written on paper mostly looks very different on the pitch, that how positions are interpreted and played vary from team to team and manager to manager and player to player.
Auba played lone striker successfully for most of his career, he didn't just unlearn it. It's the system and football that's the difference. BVB's 4231 is different to Arsenal's system right now and that's the reason Auba struggles a bit without Laca to find his voodoo 'cause he creates space and at Dortmund this was done differently, but in no way is Auba unable to play lone striker in general. Most systems are asymmetrical anyway with every and each player having a specific role.