Piers Morgan is expressing concern about how Arsenal is being physically dominated in matches and believes that the team needs a stronger physical presence. The worry stems from Arsenal’s recent 2-1 defeat to Fulham in the Premier League, where the Cottagers displayed a notably physical and aggressive style of play.
Arsenal’s midfield has been without the physicality of Thomas Partey for a significant portion of the season, and his absence has been felt. In the match against Fulham, the opposition managed to physically dominate players like Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard, highlighting the need for a stronger presence in the team.
Morgan watched as Arsenal struggled to match the physicality of Cottagers and tweeted:
“Arsenal are being bullied by teams who’ve realised our midfield/attack is very skilful, but physically weak. We need more muscle.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Our midfield has lacked physicality in the absence of Partey, and we need to sort that out as soon as possible.
This month offers us a chance to make some new signings, but it will be tricky to sign top players to improve our squad.
We might have to ask for more physical commitments from our players, but that will be difficult because our style of play is different from that of others.
It will be interesting to see how the club responds to this in the coming months.
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We all need to watch Liverpool play, wont be surprised if they emerge champions. Yesterday’s game was a pain to watch as an arsenal fan. There was no intent to win except for a few players, i feel sorry for Rice. Even the subs played worse, we were lucky to concede only 2 lucky enough there is no VAR to blame this time round.
Morgan is 100% correct in his assessment of the game. A lot of Havertz fans like talking about his strength and physicality, which frankly are nonexistent. So, without those attributes, in addition to being sluggish, what exactly does Havertz bring to the table?. He, and Zinchenko have slowed down Arsenal and completely altered the way the team plays. While Zinchenko is superb in MF, where he’s never deployed, what is it that Arteta uses Havertz for? Why are so many, so eager to see Partey’s back? This is a player who wins 90% of the matches he plays in. Which team, beyond Man.City boasts such a player?
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Exactly!!! I don’t think Havertz is a bad player at all but Zinchenko should’ve be moved to midfield and actually use ESR which is our biggest midfield goal threat….madness when you consider we are a team short of goals.
We could’ve used the money for another LB, MA doesn’t rate Tierney so we need another LB even with the signing of Timber.
No idea why MA insists on employing CB’s in the full back positions.
Arteta, Edu and the Arsenal Board SHOULD in their wisdom, listen to Piers Morgan the big Arsenal supporter. Who in his statement on the last Gunners Epl match lose away to the Cottagers. Had expressively stated that Arsenal SHOULD go the more muscle signing ways in this January transfer window.
So that the Gunners in matches can physicallity counter balance the physically of some opposition teams in the Epl. Who bully the Gunners in matches.
When will Partey be back, so eager to see him and Rice boss the midfield Last season we had physicality with Xhaka and Partey but I suspect Rice and TP will be even stronger though Xhaka pinging his passes might still be a little missed
Can’t really say I’m surprised how easily we have crumbled like a cheap suit despite forking out 120M on plain Rice, 65M on Havertz, 35M on lightweight Vieira – all luxury players.
Won’t even mention 30M on a luxury keeper who has the personality of a goal post. Time to bring back the heart and soul of the team, Aaron Ramsdale. Stop wasting money.
Rice a luxury player?
Our problem is the major dip in form of our front three.
As for Morgan, he is an ignoramus who lies dormant until Arsenal falter and then he pounces and makes the sightfull blind and dumb. He influences the insight less sheeple. The same nincompoops that cried Wenger Out, Xhaka out, Arteta out…
No further questions your honour.
Ps. Maybe we can bring in Pulis or Big Sam …
It is obvious that Havertz’s experiment is not helping our boys; why is Arteta still not seeing it? So much has been said about us missing Partey, but Arteta does not look like someone who wanted Partey in midfield. He played him in the RB position, benched Gabriel, and shifted White to the RCB position. Who does that? He seems to be more interested in reinventing Havertz and the LCM than making us win a top trophy, and no fan should tolerate this.He has completely killed off Martinelli, Saka, and Ordegaard just to make his poster boy look like prime Messi and Ronaldo. Trossard, Nelson, and Smith are not interested in fighting because he has shown favouritism in his handling of Havertz. How did you sign Havertz for 63 million? How is he our top earner? How are you destroying everything just to fit him in? How are you trading off our best players of last season just to fit in a Chelsea flop and reject? He brought in Jorginho when some people pretended Havertz was suffering from low confidence. What makes him think Havertz is suddenly better than Jorginho? Oh! He has scored some goals. Arteta should quickly fix himself because I don’t want to see my lovely club become a laboratory for another coach after Wenger.
We played so well last season their wasn’t much wrong so he goes on and gets havaretz and rays who we didn’t need and now suddenly we’re not the same team, he gets rid of Tierney when we needed a left back and sold balagon when we needed a striker,
Why he doesn’t play zinc at no 8 I can’t understand.
Since the time of invincibles, arsenal has been going for not too physical players and this has cost us so much. This is PL that requires physicality, technical and tactical abilities. It’s not a coincidence that the last time we had physical players was the last time we won the title. So, our scouts mentality must change for us to move forward. I wonder why the scouts and the coach prefers noodles eating, fragile players? They must surely be bullied.
I said at the beginning of the season, our midfield will get found out with it’s lack of bite. Too much for Rice to deal with, with Martin O and Kai H by his sides, as both cannot tackle and are far too easily pushed off the ball. We needed someone in the mold of Xhaka or Partey to help Rice but instead our Manager bought players we didn’t really need (other than Rice to replace Xhaka). It’s a shame Partey has been injured for so long. I honestly think we miss him in our midfield.
I do also agree with the consensus of others that we are too reliant on certain players, do not rotate enough and too predictable. Our play this year’s has been ok, but other than the Brighton game, I can’t think of a game where we’ve had that intensity and been brilliant at both ends.