Zane

Not defending it in the slightest but just caught the Eze goal last night, has anyone ever thought that the majority of the ‘marginalisation’ of Arsenal’s football ie. set pieces & routines is mostly down to a lack of attacking quality? Outside of Eze, Havertz & Saka, the majority of the rest are pretty mediocre. City have beautiful patterns between the front 4 but mostly because Cherki is a wizard, Doku is one of the best box enterers I’ve seen, Haaland’s a generational striker & Semenyo has insane talents for a wide attacking forward. Don’t get me wrong, the majority of it is an Arsenal/Arteta/Berta issue but can’t help but think they’ve needed a superstar attacker for 4 years and the rigidity & ‘boringness’ argument is largely because of the players he’s working with. Idk, just a thought I’ve had for a few weeks.

At the end of the day, one team has Erling Haaland, and the other team has Kai Havertz.

Auba had a system designed for him to be our primary shot taker without having to worry about other CF duties Havertz forced a complete system/player shuffle to platform him at CF after he tanked horribly at LCM Gyokeres is playing in a system that platforms his weaknesses rather than his strength. And yet, he's still the highest scoring CF in the Arteta era "Flop"