Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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His lack of effort in almost every game since signing his deal maybe?

Ah the old lack of effort since signing a new deal syndrome. That’s our go to excuse to explain everything nowadays.

[Highbury Hillbilly]

On the plus side, he is topping the chances created table. That still means something, right?

[Ach]

His lack of effort in almost every game since signing his deal maybe?

Ah the old lack of effort since signing a new deal syndrome. That’s our go to excuse to explain everything nowadays.

[Santi]

His lack of effort in almost every game since signing his deal maybe?

Ah the old lack of effort since signing a new deal syndrome. That’s our go to excuse to explain everything nowadays.

No, it's a clear correlation in Auba's case and hence being brought up here..in the Auba thread.

[theHotHead]

If you look at Auba's last full season at Dortmund he scored 31 league goals. In that team he played with:

Ousmane Dembele, Christian Pulisic, Marco Reus, Mario Goetze, Shinji Kagawa and Andre Schurrle in an attacking sense. He hardly did the work himself.

Compare to a Vardy who does do a lot of the work himself as a lone striker.

Vardy is a similar service striker. He works hard but I don't see him working off crappy service, taking a ball from deep, dribbling through players and then smashing them in.

Would Vardy work better at Arsenal with Willock, Xhaka and Ceballos behind him?

Bear in mind, Vardy does far more for the team than Auba does too. On the offensive front, there is no way you can compare Vardy to Auba. Vardy chases evetrything, makes selfless runs, its like chalk and cheese of the lone strikers, comparing Auba to Vardy.

[Power n Glory]

If you look at Auba's last full season at Dortmund he scored 31 league goals. In that team he played with:

Ousmane Dembele, Christian Pulisic, Marco Reus, Mario Goetze, Shinji Kagawa and Andre Schurrle in an attacking sense. He hardly did the work himself.

Compare to a Vardy who does do a lot of the work himself as a lone striker.

Vardy is a similar service striker. He works hard but I don't see him working off crappy service, taking a ball from deep, dribbling through players and then smashing them in.

Would Vardy work better at Arsenal with Willock, Xhaka and Ceballos behind him?

Bear in mind, Vardy does far more for the team than Auba does too. On the offensive front, there is no way you can compare Vardy to Auba. Vardy chases evetrything, makes selfless runs, its like chalk and cheese of the lone strikers, comparing Auba to Vardy.

But do you think he'd get that same level of service at Arsenal with Willock, Xhaka and Ceballos playing behind him? How long before that enthusiasm goes when he's making the runs and he's not getting the ball? How long before he gets pissed off watching the slow build up and endless passes backwards and sideways? You're still describing a striker that thrives off service. Managere know to play to Vardy's strengths. He's lethal on a counter attack. It's not the same as a striker that will come looking for the ball, dribble past a player or two, then bang one in the top corner when the opposing team has set up a low block.

Last player we had a player that would constantly score individual goals and feed off scraps was Alexis Sanchez. Pepe is probably the only player we have that can score a brilliant solo effort. Even RVP in his last couple of seasons turned into a traditional predator box striker. His movement was brilliant but he had the service.

[jayramfootball]

On the plus side, he is topping the chances created table. That still means something, right?

That's just because he has played every game.
Chances created per 90 minutes played is led by Ceballos closely followed by Nketiah.
Auba is 5th.

All of them are less than half of Ozil's worst season.

[theHotHead]

If you look at Auba's last full season at Dortmund he scored 31 league goals. In that team he played with:

Ousmane Dembele, Christian Pulisic, Marco Reus, Mario Goetze, Shinji Kagawa and Andre Schurrle in an attacking sense. He hardly did the work himself.

Compare to a Vardy who does do a lot of the work himself as a lone striker.

Vardy is a similar service striker. He works hard but I don't see him working off crappy service, taking a ball from deep, dribbling through players and then smashing them in.

Would Vardy work better at Arsenal with Willock, Xhaka and Ceballos behind him?

Bear in mind, Vardy does far more for the team than Auba does too. On the offensive front, there is no way you can compare Vardy to Auba. Vardy chases evetrything, makes selfless runs, its like chalk and cheese of the lone strikers, comparing Auba to Vardy.

But do you think he'd get that same level of service at Arsenal with Willock, Xhaka and Ceballos playing behind him? How long before that enthusiasm goes when he's making the runs and he's not getting the ball? How long before he gets pissed off watching the slow build up and endless passes backwards and sideways? You're still describing a striker that thrives off service. Managere know to play to Vardy's strengths. He's lethal on a counter attack. It's not the same as a striker that will come looking for the ball, dribble past a player or two, then bang one in the top corner when the opposing team has set up a low block.

Last player we had a player that would constantly score individual goals and feed off scraps was Alexis Sanchez. Pepe is probably the only player we have that can score a brilliant solo effort. Even RVP in his last couple of seasons turned into a traditional predator box striker. His movement was brilliant but he had the service.

No, I agree with you, Willock et al wouldn't provide shit to Vardy either. Vardy has the benefit of playing in a system that suits his game, the Leicester team play a system that suits their players. Something I wish Arteta would use his brain and do at Arsenal.

[theHotHead]

On the plus side, he is topping the chances created table. That still means something, right?

That's just because he has played every game.
Chances created per 90 minutes played is led by Ceballos closely followed by Nketiah.
Auba is 5th.

All of them are less than half of Ozil's worst season.

but but but its a useless stat created to pad out Ozil's usefulness .....

[jayramfootball]

On the plus side, he is topping the chances created table. That still means something, right?

That's just because he has played every game.
Chances created per 90 minutes played is led by Ceballos closely followed by Nketiah.
Auba is 5th.

All of them are less than half of Ozil's worst season.

but but but its a useless stat created to pad out Ozil's usefulness .....

Yep...
Key passes per 90 minutes:

1) Ceballos - 1.32
2) Nketiah - 1.31
3) Willian - 1.25
4) Saka - 1.13
5) Auba - 1.10

Ozil 2019/20 - 2.26 (led the team)
Ozil 2018/19 - 2.31 (2nd in the team)

So to be totally fair - our current best is slightly above 50% of Ozil's worst season.
Auba is below 50% of Ozil's worst season

[Arsenal Tone]

I think his issue is Laca's lack of game time. Auba needs someone up front to hold the ball up and lay it off to him. Laca is the only player we have who can do that. Unless Moller develops quickly a back up striker who can hold the ball up should be on our shopping list in the summer.

[thebigbangtheo]

His lack of effort in almost every game since signing his deal maybe?

Ah the old lack of effort since signing a new deal syndrome. That’s our go to excuse to explain everything nowadays.

I could well have been misinformed regards the facts of the matter, but I was under the impression that him getting the wage hike up to £350K/PW was largely dependent on bonuses incentivised by goals and wins.

Whilst I very much doubt that he's been on the website for Universal Credit, he could only have been paid that so far for the United match.

[jayramfootball]

I think his issue is Laca's lack of game time. Auba needs someone up front to hold the ball up and lay it off to him. Laca is the only player we have who can do that. Unless Moller develops quickly a back up striker who can hold the ball up should be on our shopping list in the summer.

Agree with this, though I think it is only one of the factors.
Auba also needs to step up... like I said during the game, just the fact that he was nowhere to be seen on 3 separate free kicks in shooting range tells a story. I really don't understand why he was not chomping at the bit to take those free kicks. It's indicative of his game at the moment - he seems to be not that bothered.

[Power n Glory]

On the plus side, he is topping the chances created table. That still means something, right?

That's just because he has played every game.
Chances created per 90 minutes played is led by Ceballos closely followed by Nketiah.
Auba is 5th.

All of them are less than half of Ozil's worst season.

but but but its a useless stat created to pad out Ozil's usefulness .....

He has a point because I haven't heard anyone talk about Auba creating chances. He's being judged on goals and so he should be.

[jayramfootball]

On the plus side, he is topping the chances created table. That still means something, right?

That's just because he has played every game.
Chances created per 90 minutes played is led by Ceballos closely followed by Nketiah.
Auba is 5th.

All of them are less than half of Ozil's worst season.

but but but its a useless stat created to pad out Ozil's usefulness .....

He has a point because I haven't heard anyone talk about Auba creating chances. He's being judged on goals and so he should be.

Correct.
He's not a creator.
It's all about goals for Auba which is why he is being criticised at the moment.