UFGN wrote:Saka is a winger / inside forward
He cant be judged on his effectiveness as a defender. I'm surprised Arteta even plays him at LB. Does AFC seriously have no professional defenders in its books that could do a better job?
Obviously I agree, but the reason Arteta is playing Saka is because "offensively" its working too well to bench him.
Again we're overloading opposition defenders with two LW's in Auba and Saka running at them and they have a rough time with it, in fact both combined for our goal with the ball recovery, over lap then final pass.
So far Saka is managing to avoid being overly exposed at the back because our CB's with Xhaka have been good positionally speaking by covering the left but as has been said, against top wingers we'll have to see how this pans out.
Saka should really just play LW but Arteta is getting around that with this hybrid 4-2-3-1 which turns into a 3-4-3 when we go forward, Xhaka peels out to the LB role of the back 3 when Saka bombs up.