Sunday’s draw at Fulham felt like an enormous alternative missed for Arsenal after Liverpool’s recreation at Everton had been postponed earlier within the weekend.
It was an actual probability for Mikel Arteta’s aspect to shut the hole on the league leaders they usually couldn’t take full benefit, which was an actual blow. You would sense the frustration afterwards.
I didn’t really suppose they performed too badly. Fulham are a good aspect who’ve had a very good season to date and Arsenal utterly dominated them by way of territory and possession, however once more the problem was they only didn’t do sufficient with the ball in and across the last third.
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It’s an ongoing challenge with this Arsenal aspect, particularly after they come up towards groups who arrange in a low block. They simply discover it troublesome to interrupt groups down.
It was no shock that the aim they scored got here from a set piece, we all know all about how harmful they’re from lifeless ball conditions. However given how a lot of the ball they loved within the Fulham half, they actually ought to have accomplished extra with it.
On the entire, Arsenal don’t wrestle to attain targets. They rating lots. They did final season and solely Chelsea and Brentford have scored greater than them within the present marketing campaign.
The issue is in these actually tight video games, when groups are sitting deep towards them, they will wrestle to unlock them. They actually do lack that mercurial X-Issue kind participant who can do one thing out of nothing and win a recreation on his personal.
That’s why I actually needed them to go for Michael Olise in the summertime. I believe he would have been excellent for this Arsenal group and was the precise kind of participant that they have been lacking. Nothing that he has accomplished since transferring to Germany has modified my thoughts.
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Gabriel Jesus’ type is an actual concern as nicely. His cameo within the second half at Craven Cottage summed up the place he’s proper now as a participant.
He seems to be shot of any form of confidence. While you throw a striker on at 1-1 halfway via a second half you actually wish to see him affect a recreation. To get on the pitch and present why he must be beginning.
However Jesus did the other. He might barely discover his man when he was on the ball and when a half probability got here his method from Declan Rice’s intelligent cross, he didn’t even swing his foot at it.
He was actually poor and his ongoing wrestle for type and confidence signifies that Mikel Arteta has little choice however to proceed taking part in Kai Havertz week in, week out and he’s unsurprisingly now beginning to appear like he wants a relaxation because of the sheer quantity of minutes he’s being requested to play.
So there are clearly attacking issues at Arsenal for the time being which is able to as soon as once more increase the query about why nothing was accomplished to actually bolster the ahead choices in the summertime, apart from the late name to signal Raheem Sterling on mortgage.
They’re justifiable questions as nicely and also you do really feel one thing must be accomplished to strengthen Arteta’s choices within the last third in January if they’re to have an opportunity of conserving tempo with Chelsea and searching down Liverpool.
