jayramfootball wrote:Power n Glory wrote:I'm replying to the below from Hothead who said the following.
He has been leading scorer for us playing in that same position, why now is it the reason he can't score for toffee ?
Yes but your excuse was way off the mark. You made it sound like he could only score 7 goals and 12 goals in the league because he was playing wide.
The reason he scored that many is because he didn't always play wide, not because he had a problem scoring from that position.
The stats posted several times on this thread already show that Auba scores and assists more when playing wide vs central.
There is absolutely no change from his time under Arteta last year, where he scored from a wide position regularly to this season, where he has been rubbish - other than his own crap form.
It's not off the mark because those are the numbers and it's false to try and claim he has played this position his entire Arsenal career.
It shouldn't be hard to work out what's going on if you haven't got an agenda. You clearly have one so I'll try not to waste much more time.
What was working last season isn't working now. Aubameyang isn't missing sitters or messing up passes. He just simply isn't involved enough and we're not creating enough chances. The small chances we do create fall to wrong players and on too many occasions it's Auba crossing the ball into the box to create the chance when he should be on the end of them.
If we were playing free flowing football and opening teams up for fun then him playing on the wing isn't a problem. When we haven't got the ball and we're defending most of the game, it's not a major issue either because he'll put a shift in to defend and will be deadly on a counter if he gets the service.
But all this is long. You know the type of player he is. He's not at his best with the ball at his feet. It's similar to Nketiah. What would you say if Arteta played him wide for most games? It would make no sense because he does most of his damage in the box.
It doesn't matter what has happened in the past, today we're seeing Saka, Tierney, Auba, Laca and Willian really struggle. Managers have made note of our left side attack and how to stop it. Arteta has to figure it out and change the system to get the maximum out of what we have. Currently, there are too many attacker underperforming. If Auba were missing the same amount of sitters Lacazette has missed and totally screwing up the link up play, I'd be in agreement with you. But what worked last season doesn't mean it will work now. Time for a change. If it still doesn't keep changing it until something works.
Arguing for Auba to stay wide just because he's scored there before is just plain silly considering our circumstances..No need to be hard headed about it. Henry and RVP used to play on the wings and score from those positions but imagine if Wenger chose to play Henry on the left whilst Franny Jeffers was having stinker after stinker? Or if RVP was forced wide whilst we're persisting with Chamakh? It's ridiculous. The only reason Aubameyang is playing wide in the first place was because we were trying to play both of our top strikers, which was Lacazette at the time. Seeing as Lacazette has fallen off considerably and won't be getting a new contract, it make more sense to prioritise Aubameyang considering we have him a massive contract to score more goals. Not cross the ball in the box for others to fluff.
