Xhaka was totally irrelevant
I thoughht thats what Xhaka means???
by Losmeister » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:28 pm
by StLGooner » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:44 pm
Arsenal~Fanatic wrote:Pudpop wrote:Ramsey was out of position and yet still spearheaded our press quite well.Tony_Adams wrote:I just feel he's being scapegoated. Ramsey, for example, did a lot less!
Xhaka failed at the very things he's supposed to be good at
+1
Funny thing is Ramsey was one of our better players till he was subbed. He was trying to stem the flow and make sh8t happen while Xhaka was totally irrelevant.
by Arsenal Tone » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:48 pm
by StLGooner » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:50 pm
Tony_Adams wrote:I thought, considering he was playing in his preferred position (CAM), Rambo had a poor game.
by Santi » Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:53 am
by Arsenal Tone » Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:40 am
by KG3 » Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:32 pm
Marsbar100 wrote:Fenice wrote:Zenith wrote:StLGooner wrote:That's disrespectful to Cesc. If Xhaka had half the touch and technical ability as Cesc we'd be ok.
by Santi » Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:24 pm
Tony_Adams wrote:Actually, he sees himself as playing the cazorla role:
https://www.arsenalreport.com/posts/aar ... d-position
by StLGooner » Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:26 pm
Santi wrote:Tony_Adams wrote:Actually, he sees himself as playing the cazorla role:
https://www.arsenalreport.com/posts/aar ... d-position
Which is where he should be and then doing the Lampard style late entry to the box. If he could get over himself then he'd be fine.
Plus Cazorla had a brain 100x quicker. Ramsey is either a player who acts on instinct (see his great goal last season) or takes too long to think, there's no in between and the instinct is usually in the box rather than anywhere else.
Not many can replicate Cazorla's footballing brain but Ramsey has never been close, completely different styles but could fill a similar role, he doesn't need to be fancy.
by theHotHead » Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:30 pm
Santi wrote:How do you know that's he preferred position? For me he doesn't have a single trait of a proper CAM/#10.
His late runs are that of a B2B midfielder which is what he once was before his ego inflated to the size of a hot air balloon.
by DiamondGooner » Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:36 pm
Tony_Adams wrote:Actually, he sees himself as playing the cazorla role:
https://www.arsenalreport.com/posts/aar ... d-position
by LegendaryKeown » Sat Aug 25, 2018 9:24 am
by Byron Gomez » Sat Aug 25, 2018 10:13 am
by Angelito » Sat Aug 25, 2018 10:46 am
XGBuildup looks at the expected goals of every possession in which a particular player is involved but doesn’t either take a shot or play a key pass (a pass that leads to a shot). In other words, it’s an attempt to measure how players contribute to attacking moves when they’re doing the hard work of moving the ball forward and not the glamorous shooting or assisting. Xhaka led Arsenal with a measure of 0.63 xGBuildup per 90 minutes last season.
The problem is, Xhaka is also a terrible defender. His range is limited and his defensive anticipation is next to nonexistent. Last season, as Arsenal tried (poorly) to press opponents, he was over-exposed and expected to patrol way more territory than he was equipped to handle. Still, it’s not surprising that Xhaka made exactly zero interceptions and only one successful tackle against Chelsea in the first half of an attacking slugfest on Saturday.
Xhaka was bad defensively, so it’s understandable that Emery would choose to replace him with Lucas Torreira at halftime. And in some ways, Arsenal did become more difficult to break down. Rather than trying to step in front of Chelsea and intercept the ball, Arsenal stood off, kept their shape, and defended in their own half. After having eight interceptions in the first half, they only had four in the second, but they blocked five shots, up from one, cleared the ball a remarkable 15 times, up from eight in the first half, and successfully completed 10 of 15 tackles, up from 4 of 8 in the first half.
But the story on offense was also that of a reversal. Without Xhaka, Arsenal simply couldn’t turn its defensiveness into attacking chances. Though they were heavily out-possessed in the first half, Arsenal was actually quite even in the attacking third, completing 43 passes to Chelsea’s 44. But in the second half, Chelsea completed 108 attacking-third passes while Arsenal completed only 32 of their own. Consequently, despite being a more disciplined defensive team, Arsenal were outshot a whopping 15 to three in the second half.
https://theathletic.com/481663/2018/08/ ... thout-him/
by Jedi » Sat Aug 25, 2018 10:58 am