Alan Shearer is puzzled by the abundance of missed opportunities by Arsenal as they actively seek a new striker. While scoring goals has been an issue for Mikel Arteta’s team this season, the problem doesn’t stem from a lack of creative opportunities.
Arsenal boasts some of the most inventive players in the Premier League, consistently generating scoring chances during matches. However, their strikers have struggled to convert these opportunities, resulting in significant setbacks. This trend was evident in the FA Cup game against Liverpool, where Arsenal created several excellent chances but failed to capitalise, ultimately leading to their defeat and elimination from the competition.
Shearer observed the match and highlighted Arsenal’s inability to convert chances as a key factor in their recent setbacks.
He said, as quoted by The Sun:
“For a little while, I felt like an Arsenal fan; watching their FA Cup defeat against Liverpool was maddening, an exercise in stomach-churning frustration.
“I was on co-commentary duty for the BBC and as each golden chance came and went, the closer I came to turning the airwaves a vivid shade of blue.”
“It took a lot of self-control – and a tongue bitten half to shreds – not to scream.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Shearer was a top striker in his playing days and knows what a good chance is, so he is spot-on with his suggestions.
We need to find a way to get our frontmen to start scoring more often or buy someone who can do that job.
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Exactly! Just like your beloved sandcastle side.
In terms of prolific goals scoring particularly in the Epl this season,
All the Arteta’s preferred Epl first team choice starters this season composing of GJesus/E Nkethia, G Martinelli and B Saka. Have failed to live up to the expectation that is required of them to lived up to it for Arsenal so far this season.
So therefore, let Mike Arteta the Gunners gaffer charge himself with the task responsibility to quickly finds the solution to the problem that will arrest the unwanted problem from continuing to hamper Arsenal scoring goals to win matches in the Epl this season.
Which ultimately will see Arsenal this season lift the Epl title unfailingly. But after Arteta has found the solution to his Arsenal team unbearable profligancy in fron of the opposition’s team goalmouth.
The profligancy that’s looking to be self inflicted by the Gunners on themselves has to stop. Which is occasioned by their over elaboratism that prelude their goal scoring opportunities to score in font of goal but lost.
In the ongoing winter transfer window, Arsenal could sign a new top quality prolific clinical finish top league goals scorer. And use him to bolster their team attackingly strength to have a not ending winning run in the Epl in their remaining 18 matches of the season.
Solanke is a good player, but its better we make the move in Summer when his performance will be compared to other tall and speedy strikers like Samu of Alaves ( Atletico Madrid) and others.
We will only pick one who is the best among them.
For now , we will make do with these formations:
(1) Martinelli – Nketiah – Saka OR
(2) Martinelli – G Jesus – Nelson.
These two formations are wonderful. We used the first one against Sheffield United this season and destroyed them by five goals to nil, while we used number two last season and destroyed Nottingham Forest by the same five goals to nil – Nelson came in for injured Saka on the 26th munite when we’re just leading by a goal to nil.
Surprisingly, Arteta has failed to repeat any of those formations again. Smith Rowe must be at the attacking midfield for them to work, meaning only one of Havertz or Odegaard will start.
In terms of prolific goals scoring particularly in the Epl this season,
All the Arteta’s preferred Epl first team choice starters this season composing of GJesus/E Nkethia, G Martinelli and B Saka. Have failed to live up to the expectation that is required of them to lived up to it for Arsenal so far this season.
So therefore, let Mikel Arteta the Gunners gaffer charge himself with the task responsibility to quickly finds the solution to the problem that will arrest the unwanted problem from continuing to hamper Arsenal scoring goals to win matches in the Epl this season.
Which ultimately will see Arsenal this season lift the Epl title unfailingly. But after Arteta has found the solution to his Arsenal team unbearable profligancy in fron of the opposition’s team goalmouth.
The profligancy that’s looking to be self inflicted by the Gunners on themselves has to stop. Which is occasioned by their over elaboratism that prelude their goal scoring opportunities to score in font of goal but lost.
In the ongoing winter transfer window, Arsenal could sign a new top quality prolific clinical finish top league goals scorer. And use him to bolster their team attacking strength to have a not ending winning run in the Epl in their remaining 18 matches of the season.
I watched my first Arsenal match in 1947, 77 years ago and from that time I have seen the best and worst football in the late Ist Division and today’s Premiership, but not quite as bad as the pathetic fairy tip-toe dancing around and the ‘walk the ball in’ system, without scoring, that developed halfway through the Wenger period to the present day under Arteta. It clearly boils down to a great lack of confidence, drive, determination, esprit de corps and being motivated properly. The lack of these qualities over twenty years is clearly indicated in the body-language of numerous Arsenal players and a clear pyschological problem inherent at Arsenal of gutless and clueless performances and lack of fight when expected.