Arsenal continued their mid-season revival with another comfortable win in the Premier League by beating West Ham at their home ground by five goals to two. All the seven goals were scored in a quite remarkable first half period in which we scored more.
Goals by Gabriel, Trossard, Ødegaard and Havertz put us in a commanding 4-0 lead inside 35 minutes but two quick fire goals including a sublime freekick by the hosts gave them a glimmer of hope to cause an upset, however this hope was squashed deep into added time at the end of the first half when the stellar starboy Bukayo Saka restored our three goal cushion with a penalty.
The Englishman could have scored more than just that spot kick, this is in reference to how he unselfishly rolled the ball to Trossard to tap home earlier in the half when he could’ve scored it himself instead. That was his second assist of the game after he got his first from another menacing delivery from a corner.
The second meant that he has now hit double figures in the assists count since the start of the League season, this is four more than than any other player (as of writing this article) which you can imagine will mean he is the favorite to win the Playmaker award at the end of the campaign.
His tenth of the season means he’s the first this season, a first in Europe’s top five leagues. He is the first player to hit 10 assists in any of those leagues, beating some of the best creators in the world in the process. Debates concerning him have been whether he is yet world class or not but performances and the statistics he is putting up this season should give us the answer you need..
The record for the most assists in a single PL campaign is jointly held by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne, you do have to wonder if Saka might break this record come the end of the season. About 25 odd games left to pick up 11 assists, yeah, he has a chance alright!
Do you all think he will break the record gooners?
BENJAMIN KENNETH
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Obsessed with stats no doubt the gaffer will be delighted with his young Englishman exploits
Thirteen goals in three games, who needs a striker when the net keeps bulging.
@Gunsmoke
We don’t have a striker, nor do we have a plan B. Just saying…🤔
Let’s be honest NYG
The only Arsenals fans that don’t want to see a striker are ……,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,(you guessed it ,Arteta love ins )
We played Forrest ,West Ham (who will probably go down )and a Portuguese teams whos annual spends on transfers is less than havertz yearly wage .
Why any Arsenal fan would be so against signing a striker is beyond me .
I’m not an “Arteta love in” DK, but I disagree with you on this at the moment.
Let’s see where we are come January, as being second in the best league in the world doesn’t seem such a bad place to be, along with a quarter final domestic Cup game to play and sitting in the qualifying group for immediate qualification to the CL play offs…. something city115 and Haaland can’t say.
Wierd how you completely made it look like the past three games results was nothing. FYI the “trash Portuguese team” did put 3 past city and hadn’t been defeated in like almost all season. The Nottingham forest was on equal points with us prior to their defeat to arsenal and currently sit a point behind City in 6th. Not to say we don’t need Striker but it’s equally bad to downplay the past couple of matches like it was nothing.
i think most of us would prefer to see a better back-up striker off the bench than Jesus
however back-up striker does not equate to €100m for an Osimhen or Gyokeres, i.e. majority of our transfer budget on one-player, who may not be happy on the bench, requiring a change to our [successful goal machine 13 goals in 3 games] system to accommodate them
a younger, lower cost, developing centre forward capable of covering wide areas too, is a better fit
but the big price tag, big names constantly touted seem very unlikely
NY Gunner, at the moment, it seems plan A is fully functional and plan B hasn’t been needed once we got our injuries down to a workable level.
The chant of 1-0 to The Arsenal was music to my ears during the GG time as manager and he never had a plan B.
Have pool, city 115, brighton, chelsea, spuds got a plan B?
In my opinion it’s a buzz saying that we fans think is important, but really doesn’t matter.
Play to your strengths, with the players you have, with a system that brings out the best in them.
If we do sign a CF, then I expect to see a change, just as city115 changed when Haaland arrived, but until and if that happens, what would your plan B be at this present time?
He is such a great player that it seems more likely than not he will break the PL record. Unfortunately, you can’t always predict the future based on the past or present. For example, at the end of December 2015, Ozil had already accumulated 16 for ’15/’16 and seemed to be a sure thing to break Henry’s record but only ended up with 19 for the season. The effect of Cazorla’s absence was devastating. Good luck Bukayo, you can do it!
I think it was more Giroud going 16 games without a goal than the absence of Carzola.