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Glad Wenger stuck it out even when he wasn’t scoring goals and not revert back to Giroud like he did once Theo got injured last season. Alexis is still learning the role and not even mastered the position yet but as long as he stays fit and keeps playing there, we’ll play a better game.
my only issue is that it looks like we lack a focal point through the centre when sanchez plays as a striker, it does appear to be something we can get away with when Theo plays but in instances where we have had Sanchez through the middle and the Ox wide right we have looked less clinical.
Ox picked out excellent cross for Sanchez to head in on saturday but after that, Ox was all over the place and Sanchez likes to receive the ball deep and sometimes in the wide areas.
I had a feeling when we brought Giroud on that he'd score as he is a flat track bully and will gobble up chances against these sides when brought on from the bench.
So in that sense i'm glad Giroud is back, against better and more open sides the pace and guile of Sanchez will be able to play off the last man and open up defences without having to bring on Giroud, especially if Walcott is fit as i think those two tend to tandem quite nicely.
It's that movement and not always being in the middle that as we have all seen now allows others around him to play into. That said, if Theo hadn't of woken up this summer as he admitted, then it's likely he wouldn't be profiting off that space as he has been. So that's been a lucky coincidence. We've always benefited from Iwobi playing to such a consistent level so far at his age every week. Alexis is also showing more craft with the assists he's offering and Ozil quite often the furthest forward filling up the space where Sanchez was. More goals from Ox and some from Xhaka, are spreading them around nicely, something we've missed for quite a while. If we can get Ramsey to fit into a system and scoring again, then it's happy days. That space in middle that Sanchez allows could be a good thing for Rambo too, as long as he and Ozil don't get in each other's way. To have a truly big season lasting near the of the table obviously we need our main two firing but Ox, Theo and Iwobi have to be able to keep this up too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Yeah I agree with this. I'm still sitting on the fence with our chances as we've kind of been here before but...we do have very good depth this season in all areas of the squad. Moreover I am getting a vibe that the players want to put "right" what went "wrong" last season so things are looking good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kano
Obviously we have a relatively healthy squad at the moment and that will need to remain as is if we want to truly challenge for trophies this season.
With Sanchez creating so much space for others and getting assists as well as goals, I'm tempted to see how Ramsey would play with him making runs beyond Alexis and Ozil taking on Iwobi's role wide left. The change up top changes my whole outlook on how certain players can be played.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kano
Give Alexis 250 K a week! Give Atom and Humber 100 K a week each as well!!!
Please sign. :(
:fury: I hope Pep and Maureen are not watching this video!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn