Is Arsenal’s new philosophy of playing to win rather than scoring a lot of goals the trick that’ll help them finally win the league?
I was one of the Gooners who saw Haaland score nine goals in four games and said that we’d never be able to compete with Manchester City. I’ve seen fellow Gooners criticise Gabriel Martinelli for not scoring goals, ignoring the other valuable contributions he makes to the squad.
Well After watching Arsenal win against Spurs with a game plan described as similar to that of a recently promoted team, I’m convinced Arsenal is solely interested in winning. Despite missing crucial players such as Martin Odegaard, Declan Rice, and Mikel Merino, the Gunners who started all performed admirably, demonstrating that we do not rely on a few players. That incredible camaraderie is what helped our boys defend so brilliantly.
Critics will argue that Arsenal struggles to score goals in open play and only relies on set pieces. However, what else could our boys in red and white do but capitalise on their strengths? Scoring on set pieces works well for them, especially when our primary goal scorers are out. Whether it’s set pieces or open play, sometimes people forget that the ultimate goal is to win games, not just score a lot of goals.
Last season, Manchester City scored five more goals than Arsenal, but they only beat our Gunners by two points to win the title. We Gooners should understand that our Gunners’ concentration on winning rather than merely scoring is effective and could be the secret weapon to a successful title run.
Mikel Arteta didn’t forego signing a top striker last summer for nothing, now we know why.
Peter Rix
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I actually remember when we won trophies by keeping clean sheets and scoring at least one at the other end. We were as good as the Italians.
If that’s how we win the league, European cup and fa cup then I’d be proud and happy.
Not every team has Henry or Haaland
15-20 goals from all our forwards would be enough
Aubameyang scored a lot of goals for us, but he couldn’t create his own chances with his pace
We need a very strong CF like Haaland who can forcefully make chances with his strength, aerial dominance and skills
Maybe that was why Arsenal wanted to sign Vlahovic and Sesko
You’re back with your wierd statement
If there’s a striker that can make chances for himself and depends on been fed by it’s team mates – it’s Haaland
Haaland doesn’t score those curling outside shots Auba scores from the right wings – he’s just a fox in the box striker
#that cannot make chances by himself
Haaland has been using his brute strength, aerial prowess and pace to win duels in penalty box, which eventually make more chances for him to score
@Gai Vlahovic haven’t really been consistent like Sedko he hasn’t lived up to his abilities in last 2 seasons. VGyokeres has continued where he left it last season scoring goals again this season. That’s the type of CF we need. And regardless of his cost
Vlahovic has scored two goals from four appearances in Serie A this season and made an assist from one UCL game
Vlahovic is the new Morata
Interesting headline. The points or progression to the next round is clearly paramount. That said, I’d prefer it if Arsenal could do it playing “good” football where at all possible.
Following our recent win at Sp*rs, some reports suggested, and not in a particularly negative way, that it was a “Mourinho-style” win. Considering the general opprobrium Mourinho received (not least from Gooners) for the style of play his very successful Chelsea teams in particular employed, that’s a bit of a turnaround to say the least. Perhaps his motto could also have been “They just need to win”?
the difference is Arsenal play ‘Mourinho-style’ in the very specific circumstances of 1) NLD, 2) away, 3) missing Odegaard, Rice and Merino
whereas Mourinho set up the same for Blackpool at home
it is actually a complement to Arteta and the players that we can so quickly and effectively switch styles for the specific circumstances
once through this patch, and specifically Man C, I can see a few cricket scores coming up as Arteta deliberately looks to build ‘goal difference’ like he did last season, e.g. Sheffield United, i.e. switch styles again to score as many goals as possible
Why do fans like to talk down past events and personnel just because of something happening in the present
I’m sure there’ll be fans that say Odegaard is far better than Fabregas and Koscielny was a poor CB
Prime Auba as Striker in this team now, we’ll have won the premier league twice
not sure about that, while Man C can seemingly play with 10 men, Arsenal can not
example: Auba in ours starting XI on the weekend and we probably lose to Spurs, Auba probably didn’t win 11 duels a season let alone in one game
Maybe true about Auba, maybe not. He did tie for the Golden Boot with us, and finish 2nd to Vardy by 1 goal the following year. Also, he helped us win our only trophy under Arteta; FA Cup.
You have a good point, but a bit too dismissive of what he helped us accomplish before he downed his tools.
His work ethic or defending I would say fair enough, but getting a goal from nothing or hitting on the counter he was good.
Not saying we should have kept Auba, but can’t forget what he did do with us before he went off the rails.