Top 5 football-related things that frustrate me most: 1. Arsenals losing mindset. One of the top five most talented teams in the world but they just cant perform when it really counts. 2. Arsenals perpetual injury crisis. Another reason Arsenal cant get over the worst-of-the-best hump. There are too many injuries to key players on a year-to-year basis. Happens way to often to be coincidence or bad luck. 3. Arsene Wengers transfer choices. Not so much because he doesnt spend millions of pounds on overrated players, but because he buys the same player over and over again. Wilshere, Ramsey and Arteta are all world class midfielders, but theyre just too similar to be able to play well together. If Abou Diaby could stay healthy and pair one of those three at the base of the midfield, Arsenal would be in business. In a very similar vein Ozil, Cazorla and Rosicky are all very very much alike each other. When your midfielders are all ball-playing CAMs who play brilliant defense-splitting passes but have no one with the pace and desire to make runs in behind to receive those passes, youre not going to be a dynamic team. Wenger needs to increase his usage of Oxlade-Chamberlain, Podolski, Gnabry and Walcott (when hes healthy). 4. Mesut Ozil as the personification of Arsenal. Supremely talented (one of the top five or ten players in the world) but just cant turn it on in those make-or-break situations. Also injured far too often. 5. People who dont rate lower-scoring strikers like Fernando Torres and Olivier Giroud. Theres a reason Chelsea and Arsenal have such high-scoring midfields, its because their strikers are equally adept at holding the ball up and picking out a pass as they are at finishing. Theyre not elite goal scorers (Torres used to be but his game has evolved) but they are top class strikers.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:31:29 +0000
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