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Isolated Benzema could solve Arsenal's striking depth problems

In terms of his situation at Real Madrid, Benzema's is certainly a sticky one. He's played 10 games in the League and has 4 goals and 4 assists to go with it, so what's the problem? Footballers are human beings and despite making his best start since joining Madrid, the fans have still got issues with him. Despite work rate and other false pretences cited, a familiar tale of no amount of talent will ever be equal to being Spanish. With even Mesut Ozil revealing after he left "In Madrid, only the Spanish are valued. In 3 years there, they never chanted my name. In Isco's first game, they chanted for him." With his own manager un willing to give him a public vote of confidence being quoted as saying "It's not a problem That the fans are booing him (Benzema) . Sometimes boos

Guest Post: The Sergio Busquets Element

The conventional target man would be used to get the ball directly into either the most or just before the most attacking phase in football. A knock down to a team mate and a team could launch an attack from there, the typical target man was also generally a team’s top scorer and someone the team could rely upon to score goals. With this new style of a creative target man this element of football still exists for them in terms of knocking the ball down for team mates and making for an easy transition from defending to attacking. The burden of scoring much of the teams goals however has very much been lifted from them. They are required to contribute more to the actual attack of the team than just possession retention, usually done by utilising three skills that are very