Sunday’s draw at Fulham felt like a large alternative missed for Arsenal after Liverpool’s sport at Everton had been postponed earlier within the weekend.
It was an actual likelihood for Mikel Arteta’s aspect to shut the hole on the league leaders and so they couldn’t take full benefit, which was an actual blow. You can sense the frustration afterwards.
I didn’t truly assume they performed too badly. Fulham are an honest aspect who’ve had an excellent season to this point and Arsenal fully dominated them when it comes to territory and possession, however once more the difficulty was they only didn’t do sufficient with the ball in and across the remaining third.
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It’s an ongoing situation with this Arsenal aspect, particularly after they come up towards groups who arrange in a low block. They only discover it tough to interrupt groups down.
It was no shock that the objective 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 performed extra with it.
On the entire, Arsenal don’t battle to attain objectives. They rating a lot. 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 battle to unlock them. They actually do lack that mercurial X-Issue kind participant who can do one thing out of nothing and win a sport on his personal.
That’s why I actually wished them to go for Michael Olise in the summertime. I believe he would have been excellent for this Arsenal staff and was the precise kind of participant that they have been lacking. Nothing that he has performed 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 appears shot of any type of confidence. If you throw a striker on at 1-1 halfway via a second half you actually need to see him affect a sport. To get on the pitch and present why he needs to be beginning.
However Jesus did the other. He may barely discover his man when he was on the ball and when a half likelihood got here his manner from Declan Rice’s intelligent cross, he didn’t even swing his foot at it.
He was actually poor and his ongoing battle for type and confidence implies that Mikel Arteta has little choice however to proceed enjoying Kai Havertz week in, week out and he’s unsurprisingly now beginning to appear to be he wants a relaxation as a result of sheer quantity of minutes he’s being requested to play.
So there are clearly attacking considerations at Arsenal for the time being which can as soon as once more increase the query about why nothing was performed to actually bolster the ahead choices in the summertime, except for 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 performed to strengthen Arteta’s choices within the remaining third in January if they’re to have an opportunity of preserving tempo with Chelsea and looking down Liverpool.
