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West Brom (a) Thoughts & Line Up: A Great Time To Apply Pressure
Gervinho's recent resurgence, I am intrigued to know how he starts the game. An in form Gerv is a very useful player, not just for himself but for the team. He drags defenders around and will make space for the best player in our team, Santi Cazorla who is likely to be drifting in from the left to add extra creativity. I have read plenty of people wanting Oxlade-Chamberlain to start ahead of Gervinho and after his good display at Swansea I can understand that but the reason for Gervinho's inclusion is because Arsene wants one of his wide forwards to play as a part time striker. Look at the moves that both Theo Walcott and then Gervinho made last week. Oxlade-Chamberlain
A Theory On Recent ‘Cup Final’ Performances, 70 min subs & Sacrificing Myself
Enjoying Arsenal, Enjoying Santi & Enjoying the understanding
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
Reading (a) – GervACE, Santi a joy & Wengerball returns (Video)
You could see with Gervinho's movement into central areas that criticism towards Theo Walcott for drifting inside has been a little unfair as it seems apparent that it is an instruction given from the manager. Gervinho's starting position was from the right but continuously ran inside to join Oliver
When Arsene buys – A look at the transfers of this season
Giroud also sometimes seems to lack the confidence to take on chances. Too often he plays the wall for players like Cazorla, bouncing balls back, where I feel he should take on chances himself. None the less, when he does try, he seems to do ok. 16 goals in a stop-start first season is very impressive, especially for a player who I think can develop a lot with the right coaching and environment. I myself am most certainly not one of those who consider him a weak part of the team, and whilst I am not convinced that having him as first choice centre forward would be enough to win us the league, as a second choice rotation striker
Hugh Wizzy’s VLOG: Arsenal 4-1 Reading: The Review ft @JonnyGould
Reading (a) Thoughts & Line Up: Defence Check, Time To Click In Attack
Our front line will be interesting. I am guessing that our left hand side will be between Podolski, Gervinho and Cazorla. With Wilshere out, I suspect Santi will be needed centrally so I am going to cross off Santi from that wide list and I guess the rest depends on Podolski's fitness. As he was on the bench for the Germans you have to guess that he is fit enough to start the game. Gervinho could
Being on the Fence – Arsenal Style
