tbh he have not been any more better then any of the team yesterday. FFS we should not have to rely on an 18 year old kid should we.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
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tbh he have not been any more better then any of the team yesterday. FFS we should not have to rely on an 18 year old kid should we.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
Well he had about 15 mins against opposition that's camped in their own penalty box and even then he showed better drive than the other attackers. He is a lot better than the other options at the moment. I really don't understand why he isn't starting games.
I thought he looked like the most threatening player on the pitch when he came on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
The whole situation is baffling.
It's probably to do with what happend to Wilshere. He overplayed him and has gone to the extreme with Ox.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syn
Wilshere played 50+ games last season and wasnt his injury from an actual match at the Emirates Cup rather than too much football?Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Ox has played 5 minutes
Wenger is doing nothing more than trying to prove a point that we dont need Ox yet and hes failing miserably
I think that too. Or maybe Wenger doesn't want him to go to the Euros. Even a single hat-trick against (and nothing else) will generate a lot of fuss. He's nominated for Young Player of the Year despite only playing a handful of games - chuck in a decent run of games now and he'll be on the plane.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
In either case, it's not really helping. Oxlade seems to have his head screwed on right - the hype won't affect him. He just seems to want to play football. Rooney at 18 was a regular. If you play him for 50 games in the season (like Wenger did Wilshere) then that's probably no good either. But the number of starts Oxlade has had is in single figures. With only 4 games left, and the pressure now back on, he has to start.
There was a bit of debate over whether Wilshere was actually quality. Ramsey and others, too. But are we all agreed that Oxlade is our best option out wide atm? I think the fan hype is justified here. It seems to be the most obvious choice. After the mystery over the Park signing, this is the second big weird decision Wenger has made this season.
And if he played him 50 times and he gets injured you be blaming wenger for overplaying him.and for someone who thinks OX is overhyped as you use to say now you defend him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Wenger knows how good he is but knows we can't rely on him.
wenger has said he does not want to risk him i doubt he not play him to prove a point.
Maybe Like syn said he does not want him going to the euros and being exposed.
but with wenger who knows.
Seasons biggest mystery for me was why didn't Ox play in the last few weeks?
Even yesterday, when we could have finished 4th or 5th, he didn't get a look in.
He is one of our best players!
Coq, Ramsey, Gervinho - the latter two being utter dross and Coq being inexperienced - all play ahead of him!
WTF!
This keeping him out of the euros thing is nonsense IMO. We were at risk of finishing 4th/5th - fuck the euros. And anyway, Wilshere didn't get injured because of England over playing him, it was Wenger who played him for 50+ games in his debut season.
I can only think Wenger doesn't trust him.
I think the boy isn't hungry enough. I mean look at this tweet last night - surely he should be disappointed at not playing??
15h Alex Ox-Chamberlain @Alex_OxChambo
Great way to end the season, I'm absolutely buzzin! #AFC
I'm sure we'll see more of him next year but it was disappointing to see him underused considering the game time shit like Gervais got.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...hone-defensiveQuote:
Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has revealed Arsene Wenger is helping him improve the defensive side of his play.
The former Southampton winger enjoyed an impressive debut campaign with the Gunners last season but insisted he is keen to improve his all-round game.
“There are always lots of errors the boss speaks to me about,” Oxlade-Chamberlain admitted to The Sun.
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“He wants to fine-tune my whole game and make me a better player. I think I have to be more assertive defensively to be a better player.
“I will hold my hands up for that. Defending is not a natural side of my game, but it is equally as important, particularly when you are playing in the Premier League.
“So I have to work on defending and I think I can improve on that — that is the main aim.
“I am really looking forward to the start of the season. I am taking it step-by-step and the first aim is to make sure I am fully fit for the start of the season, to get the best chance to get in the team.
“I know it won’t be easy. The new signings are really good while we have good talent here coming through, so if I do manage to get into the Arsenal team, I need to try and stay in there.”
The midfielder scored four times and assisted three goals last season in 26 appearances, but accepted more results were needed from him in the attacking third to cement his place in the team.
“Being more of an attacking player, I need to score more goals and get more assists,” Oxlade-Chamberlain added. “That wins games and people notice that.
“I will always put my own style on things, which is taking people on and being an exciting player to watch. You have to have that confidence otherwise you won’t go anywhere. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will.
“But you also have to keep your feet on the ground, realise it is a very hard league and you cannot take your foot off the gas at any time.
Oxlade-Chamberlain was included in England's Euro 2012 squad and described his delight at starting the Three Lions' first game against France and the disappointment of the quarter-final defeat to Italy.
“To get the nod in the first game against France was unbelievable,” he continued. “It doesn’t get any better than that. For the boss to pick me in the other games off the bench was also brilliant.
“The Italy game was just horrible, the fact we lost. You could see how hard the boys worked for 120 minutes. I learned a lot from that game, watching our boys but also from Andrea Pirlo.
“Maybe some people don’t think I am a central midfielder, some people think I am a winger, but to see quality like that on the pitch was something.
“I will learn a lot from that and how to defend against someone like him. It was a good learning curve but still heart-breaking in terms of the way we went out of the competition.”
If he sorts that out, he could possibly play in the middle