Cut it out. Why would you say a striker was so important for us to sign if we're only looking at a two goal difference?Originally Posted by Letters
Chelsea scored 2 more league goals than us in the league last year.
In general scoring goals wasn't a big issue.
I do think a striker was important to push us on, but scoring goals wasn't a huge issue for us in general last year.
The issue is in tight games where you don't get many chances, that's where a really top striker would help.
But in general the lack of goals so far this season is not representative of the goals we as a team are good enough to score.
So scoring was an issue and that comparison to Chelsea’s record just blurs the problem.
It's about being able to score when it's most important, the goals scored can be an outlier when you get five against the Aston villa but haven't managed a league goal against Chelsea in the last four games and fail to score in five out of your last six league games at home and your top scorer is a guy called Og (who the fuck calls their child that).
L'Adulterer has an ok goal record, because he scores a lot in patchy spells and then goes on massive droughts...and then constantly misses the chances that the frog crowd boo him for.
Scoring, particularly at home, became an issue at the tail end of the season. That also seems to have carried in to this season. Scoring in only 1 of our last 5 (it might be 6) home games would indicate we have a major problem here.
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We definitely have goal scoring problems when we really have only one central striker of note. Last years tally by Cheslea was completely misleading because the usual amount of goals scored by a title winning team is in the mid-80's. City scored more goals than Chelsea last year but their defence wasn't up to scratch. Anyone that believes a good striker, like Groud, whose maximum return in the league is 16 so far is enough, needs their head checking. Sanchez scored 16 last season but out on the wing he won't get much more than that and many of those goals came in the absence of Giroud.
And we only conceded 4 more than them, so that makes our defense just a tad worse than theirs? Despite having a difference of GD of 6 between us, we finished 12 points behind them. How did that happen?Chelsea scored 2 more league goals than us in the league last year.
In general scoring goals wasn't a big issue.
Its always easy to cherry pick stats to argue on the internet (I do that too). The only stat that should matter is "Have we challenged consistently over a decade for the PL?" The answer to that is no, and we need to rectify that problem. There is only one constant at Arsenal FC failing footballistically and you know his name..
PS: Would you PLEASE stop comparing our failings to the failings of other teams to show that somehow we are not as shit? When you are a winner, you look at yourself and try to better yourself, not look at others in the shit and think "we arent that bad". Like the famous Ricky Bobby said "If you aint first, you are last"
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
Why shouldn't I compare what we're doing to the teams we're supposed to be competing with, some of who have bigger resources than us? If we're to win the league we don't need to be the best team in history, we just need to be better than everyone else. We have failings but so do all teams, to compare them is perfectly valid.
'WHEN HE HAS A PLAN, WE BACK HIM, WHEN HE DOESN'T......WE KEEP QUIET'
That's the attitude Wenger seems to have when we're top of our group in the CL, have already qualified but need to finish things off with a couple of wins to finish top. Why bother? We've already qualified.
That's the attitude Wenger seems to have when we are on an unbeaten run, have qualified for the CL and just need to finish things off by winning our remaining games and finishing above one of the teams we supposedly can't compete with financially. Why bother? We've already qualified.
That's the attitude of the second rate, the also-ran. It's an attitude that has been stinking up the club for too long now.
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