niko197 wrote:Myrmedus wrote:niko197 wrote:Myrmedus wrote:niko197 wrote:simsuk wrote:This match just shows that we need a proven goalscorer up front. Wenger needs to blow the cash on a high calibre player such as Villa or Dzeko. I don't want to rely on Walcott, who should be sold for a packet of crisps.
you haven't watch the game mate, if you had you would know that the midfield was disgrace today, we hardly even came in position to score.
we have to be honest, without song and fabregas, with disappointing ramsey, denilson and nasri we can't beat anyone. everton was better team and we're lucky with the one point.
Of course but this is the point. All teams have areas of their team which play badly on occasion, it's why you need to have strength all over the field to compensate.
When your attack isn't playing well you need a good defence.
When your defence is having an off day you need a good attack.
If your midfield isn't playing well you need a good attack and defence to 'steal' a game for you.
In the rarest of occasions you have more than one component of the team playing badly and these are the games you usually lose, but you shouldn't lose games (apart from against rivals) on the basis of one component playing badly. If you do then you lack personnel. We need a striker to give us an extra dimension to compensate for the odd games where our midfielders don't play like kings.
Just take a look across at Chelsea. There have been so many games where their midfield played badly, sometimes their defence aswell, but because Drogba (and even Anelka) are so good they dragged the team through the dirt and stole the game. If we had that kind of offensive power (which we do when RvP is around to be fair) we would've won this game today even if we did play b adly.
sorry mate, but today we didn't have "one component of the team playing badly", almunia, whole defence, whole midfield except diaby were disgrace!! eddie and arshavin had to make chances for them, first goal was created by arshavin and eduardo, if you haven't seen they were all over the pitch, how many times i saw eduardo on our corner line watching traore's back (and btw, traore is awfull full back), so i would say that arsh and eddie were the best on the pitch today.
I'm not slating Arshavin or Eduardo for their performance, it's just that no matter how well they play they don't grow an inch for every good deed they do!
My point is about improving the capabilities of the team. No matter how well we play we're a weak aerial team - I'd like to see that weakness removed for example. I constantly recite Chelsea's games because it's a perfect example of what I mean. They play shit, their attackers play shit but because of the capabilities of a player like Drogba they just grab a completely undeserved goal out of nowhere due to raw strength and ability.
i understand what you're trying to say, but we are nowhere near like chelsea, they play physical football, and we play quick, tehnical football, we don't have strong players like chelsea, and most important, we don't have so many good subs like they do.
and drogba is one of the best strikers in last 5-6 years, so you can't compare him with eduardo or arshavin.
I only use Drogba as an example because of the type of player he is. I can use Adebayor instead if you want
Basically, I'm not asking for us to become a physical side, just that we don't place all of our eggs in one basket. Chelsea are a physical side yet they can still play crisp football when they need but the reverse isn't true for Arsenal - we play crisp football, that's our motto, but we can't call on some strength when we need it, or at least not in attacking positions.
All I want to see is a striker that gives us that physical edge and gives opponents a dilemma how to defend against us:
Do we defend deep and narrow to stop them getting in behind us with crisp passing?
Wait, if we do that then they can get balls in to <Striker Signing> and he can hurt us.
Well, we'll just have to risk it.
In the game we're getting lots of crossing opportunities and <Striker Signing> is getting on the end of a few of them, maybe even scores, so the opposition have to reconsider their defensive tactics:
We need to cut the supply to him, we'll push the defensive line up a little and try to stop their wing backs from attacking.
Great! Then that means there's more space in behind them and through them because their defense is more sparse. That means we can play our normal game of threading in balls again!
Having an extra method of attack not only gives you that extra dimension but also makes your existing dimensions more effective due to defensive dilemmas you give the opposition. You can counter every defensive tactic they use whereas right now we don't have that capability - it's either pass the ball into the net or pass the ball into the net.
Of course, if we had a little more tactical acuity we could isolate players on the edge of the box for pot-shots at goal which would have the same effect but we never do, heh.