Gabriel Jesus must return quickly to help Arsenal’s attack regain its ruthlessness. After learning that Jesus would be out injured for some time, Arsenal fans everywhere declared how much Arsenal would miss Jesus. When Arsenal has struggled to score enough goals in their last three league games, the claims have never been more accurate.
The main reason that Arsenal will miss Gabriel Jesus is the Brazilian’s fluid positioning in attack. Jesus can play anywhere in the front four attacking positions, which allows him to create space for other attackers to score goals.
Jesus likes to drift out to the left-hand side the most, using his pace to take on defenders and produce deadly passes into central attacking positions. At the moment, Arsenal haven’t got a player of Jesus’ quality that can drift fluidly in and out of attacking positions yet be as clinical as Jesus has.
Arsenal’s match against Manchester City was a difficult one, and there were some notable errors that led to their defeat. Arsenal had numerous chances to take the lead, but failed to capitalise on the opportunities presented to them. Eddie Nketiah had two clear chances to score. Both were directed at his head, but he was unable to convert them into goals, instead heading them wide.
Gabriel Jesus could not have passed up such opportunities. They were Arsenal’s only chances to defeat Manchester City.
Furthermore, Eddie Nketiah did not pose a threat to Manchester City, even though he won the penalty, allowing them to dominate the game in defense. Arsenal requires a striker who is known to pose a threat to opponents, such as Gabriel Jesus.
If Mikel Arteta needs good results, he should hope Gabriel Jesus returns soon.
Do you think we would have beaten City if Jesus was leading our attack?
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Definitely Jesus would have make huge difference compared to Nketia, the dude is an average player but not on arsenal level. We may have lost the game but Jesus would have cost them loads of problems upfront.
Halland fluidity, pace and energy caused our defence to commit errors.
Anyway, we should focus on Aston Villa now. Anything short of maximum 3 points at villa park would be appalling.
Jesus may or may not have been more clinical, but that’s not his forte, I’m pretty sure he would have caused them problems and made things happen.
If you’d told me a few weeks ago that we’d be playing City without Jesus or Partey, I would’ve been very worried.
Suppose they’d played and City were without, say, De Bruyne and Haaland… how do we think it would’ve gone?
Time to move on. We play on Saturday against Villa.
Well i dont get the relevance. We don’t know and never will but people forget, he was on a scoring drought and had lost a bit of his spark. His mate Zinchenko didn’t have the best game against citeh, so i dont get the article.
I don’t think we necessarily would have beaten City (who can know that?), but i think we’d have had a better chance, and we might well have played better and gotten at least a couple more points from our previous two games if he’d been around.
No sense or benefit now in looking back to yesterdays game and asking” what if”!
I am known for scorning articles that talk about “what ifs” as they are pointless, backward looking and only lead to polarised debate.
I far prefer to look FORWARD to City away on April 26, some ten weeks from now.
City will still, hopefully, be involved in CL and FA Cup games near that time AND, importantly we will presumably have both Jesus and Partey available then too.
I will not join the chorus of “dismal Jeremiahs” who have now , in childish fashion, given up on on our title hopes.
They are, frankly, too pathetic to be taken seriously. So called “supporters” who, in timid and cowardly fashion, have already written off our title challenge are too ludicrous to be taken seriously.
We are bang in the title hunt and to deny that truth is arrant nonsense.
IN MY BOOK, ANY “SUPPORTER” WHO ONLY SUPPORTS A TEAM THEY EXPECT TO WIN THE TITLE, IS NOT A SUPPORTER AT ALL, BUT A TWERP!
Enough of the Nketiah bashing please.We lost the match against City because our back four is not good enough individually and collectively.From being a fairly solid unit, they have lost the plot against Everton, Brentford and City with basic errors, lack of positional awareness and a complete lack of composure.The risk and reward tactics demanded by Arteta can only work if all our players are entirely comfortable on the ball and are capable of making the right decisions under pressure.Last night the unbelievable errors made by Tomi and Gabriel made life easy for a City side who were no great shakes in my opinion.I shall be very interested to learn of Arteta’s selection against Villa, because, if he is to maintain credibility with fans and certain players who were on the bench last night, he needs to change the make up of his back four.
Can I ask, Grandad if you have said what you have about the back 4 because they have suddenly become shaky or has this been a concern of yours for some time?
You have an interest in the defence and think that Tierney deserves game time that has been lacking
You are ABSOLUTELY VERY RIGHT
Sue, I have never been convinced by the tactic of playing a skilful central midfielder at left back, when we have one of the best in the League on the bench.They would both be in my team.As to the others,I rate White and Tomi despite his costly error against City.The problem is a lack of rotation ,so it’s hardly surprising Tomi was rusty in his first start for some time.With regard to Saliba and Gabriel, their form has shaded off during the past 3 games and Gabriel in particular has a shocker the other night.His problem seems to be he is either very good or very bad.No half measures.When he is bad, as he was against City, he commits himself to silly tackles ,and loses his positional sense and composure.The suicidal pass which led to the second goal summer up his performance.Saliba will, I am fairly sure, develope into a fine CB but he tends to overplay in dangerous situations when he ought to keep it simple.The absence of Partey did not of course help the back four nor the team as a whole, but with a run of 3 bad performances in succession, I will be disappointed if changes are not made in defence.I hope this clarifies the situation Sue.