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Hans Gruber wrote:

Pudpop wrote:

Massa wrote:

SchlandGooner wrote:

Massa wrote:Ramsey is bailing us out often and whilst it is great for the lad it's dangerous to rely on a midfielder. Need that striker in Jan to push us over the line

I'm not the biggest fan of Giroud but I don't see much difference to other "bigger" teams here f.e. Real and Ronaldo, Oscar at Chelsea, Reus/Aubameyang at Dortmund or Müller/Robben at Bayern aso.
It's quiet normal that midfielders decide games today if you play only with one striker imo can't remember how long Ballack was the only real goalscorer for Germany during our lousy era around millennium.

Those players are attackers though and you would expect them to score goals (rely on them in the case of Ronaldo). Plus Lewa scores for Dortmund so Reus/Abameyang don't really count. With Ramsey scoring is not his job

Chelsea won the league with a record points tally and they relied on Lampard...

They had Droba, you know, the guy who always scored against us.

Massa wrote:

Omphi93 wrote:Aguero scores 12 in 30 last season but was still considered a god a the begining of this.

Heaven help Giroud if he ends the season with 12/

You literally can find countless examples of the same standards not being applied, its so obviously and easily found if one looks it barely become worth a mention when people just refuse to see it.

Giroud doesn't have a backlog of leading a team to a title and being world class and therefore people giving him more time. He still has it all to prove so yeah 12 goals would be naff

Mesüt wrote:A tap in, Flami's goal? Are you serious??????

Mesüt wrote:One on one with a goalkeeper isn't a tap in, he battered that into the roof of the net with a great finish.

Callum wrote:

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:It was pretty much a tap in, any player on the pitch would have scored that. Also, look at what Walcott did in the 4 minutes he spent on the pitch. Imagine what he could have done with 30, especially with Arteta in the midfield as opposed to Flamini.

It was hardly a tap-in and I actually agree with you about Walcott, but you're wrong to say that correlation does not equal causality in this case. When the correlation is between subs coming on and us scoring two more goals, you cannot say there is no causality when Flamini physically put the ball in the back of the net.

Mesüt wrote:One on one with a goalkeeper isn't a tap in, he battered that into the roof of the net with a great finish.

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:Any player on the pitch would have scored that, it's not like it was a difficult chance. If Arteta was on the pitch, he would have done the same, and we'd have stood a better chance of killing the game off earlier too.

Callum wrote:

Mesüt wrote:One on one with a goalkeeper isn't a tap in, he battered that into the roof of the net with a great finish.

Yeah, but by admitting that he concedes his incredibly flimsy point that the subs made had nothing to do with us scoring two more goals.

Callum wrote:

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:Any player on the pitch would have scored that, it's not like it was a difficult chance. If Arteta was on the pitch, he would have done the same, and we'd have stood a better chance of killing the game off earlier too.

Easy to say that but there's no guarantee. He still has to hit it with enough power and accuracy to beat the goalkeeper and keep it under the bar. Could easily have fluffed it or mis-kicked it into the keeper's hands.

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:The player he came on for (Arteta) would most certainly have scored that. He's a much better shooter than Flamini.

Callum wrote:

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:The player he came on for (Arteta) would most certainly have scored that. He's a much better shooter than Flamini.

He wouldn't have made that run though after playing a full match, that's for sure.

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:

Callum wrote:

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:Any player on the pitch would have scored that, it's not like it was a difficult chance. If Arteta was on the pitch, he would have done the same, and we'd have stood a better chance of killing the game off earlier too.

Easy to say that but there's no guarantee. He still has to hit it with enough power and accuracy to beat the goalkeeper and keep it under the bar. Could easily have fluffed it or mis-kicked it into the keeper's hands.

The player he came on for (Arteta) would most certainly have scored that. He's a much better shooter than Flamini.