William Saliba has had a good season at Arsenal overall, but the Frenchman has struggled lately, especially in the match against Brentford yesterday.
Reputed for being no-nonsense and one of the strongest defenders in the league both in the air and on the ground, the Frenchman has just set a poor record in the Premier League.
WhoScored reports the former Olympic Marseille loanee won none of his ten aerial duels in the game against Brentford.
It is the most aerial duels a player has contested without winning a single one in the Premier League this season.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Brentford is a very physical team who are adept at using the air to attack and defend against opponents.
Saliba has had better games and the defender should not worry too much about just one poor match.
There are more matches to play and everyone in the team must be ready to help their teammates in every game.
Saliba is still young and a work in progress, so he will learn from this game and get better.
The Frenchman is a bundle of talent and we must remember that this is his first season in the Premier League, so there is no need to worry.
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I’d hate to lose Saliba as he’s a rock beside Gabriel in centre defence but if he needs a rest wait till after the city game, then put white next to Gabriel and Tomiyasu left back ,but I don’t want to push players that’s tired into a long Injury, come on Eddie’s defo needing replaced he’s not a out and out striker espec on his own upfront,that’s why we need to get to a 442 or 4312 etc that’s my oppion though, COYG
Salibas fallen off a cliff, with White, Martinelli, Nketiah, Zinchenko and Odergaard. Why?
2 bad performances and they’ve “fallen off a cliff”?!! Not much mercy/grace on your end huh mate? Players go through patches….
Yes some are more than 2 games and yes there performance has dropped alarmingly, so why? I dont se what that has to do were Grace or Mercy, whoever they may be.
Just hoping and praying that Harlaand misses Wednesday. His aerial threat would be a nightmare for our defenders.
In the passage of play that led to Brendford’s goal on Saturday, there were about half a dozen headers by their players to keep the ball alive; none by an Arsenal player!
Might be worth bring wwf king Holding on for the first half, to ruff him up a bit. He certainly looked shocked by Holdings treatment and it worked. Holding got a bit of stick from some but i thought he did a great unsettling job on him.
Its a long and grueling season, Saliba will continue to grow in stature.
Ivan Toney won that fouled against him that led to the equalizing goal, the Englishman uses his strength and experience to get the call against the young Frenchman.
A can’t see Ivan Toney doing the same trick against him and coming out on top next season.
Anyone that age and new to the EPL should be rotated more than he has, which also keeps the bench fresh.
We don’t do rotation, clear to see the long term affects in results now.
Nothing is wrong with Saliba.
Nothing is wrong Martinelli.
All the usual starting 11 seem fatigued because opposition teams are forced to defend harder and deeper against us.
This Arsenal team will win the premier league this season.
That being said, Holding as backup for Saliba is really worrying. But he is coping and the team too is coping.
Jorginho as backup for Partey is disaster! It will ruin Artetaball which relies alot of the height, speed and power of the sitting DM who also offers technical and tactical security for the team defensively. Going forward, Jakub Kiwior is the best choice as backup for the DM spot, to give Partey is deserved breathers.
Jakub Kiwior has to play the DM in the absence of Partey.
Saliba simply couldn’t handle Toney in the air and compounded the problem by committing himself to winning the first ball even in the middle of the park with little danger apparent.This left our defence exposed unnecessarily and on at least two occasions we were fortunate not to concede.By all means attack the ball in the air in your own box but don’t get dragged out of position and leave the back four exposed to the counter attack which is the main tactic of most sides who visit the Emirates.
I really want to see kiwior and Tomiyasu get a chance as a centre back pairing. Error prone Gabriel seems the most consistent and can’t be dropped at this point in the season. Also Rob Holding been flying under the radar, he simply isn’t good enough for Arsenal so let’s cut our losses there
Everton scored through a header.That shd have been a warning sign since the bees have big,tall guys.
As for MC game,I have been saying for along time,the passing game is too slow.
If MA plays like thi s as in the last two games,Arsenal will lose.
We need the gunnerz to run at defencez
Watch how Wolves scored against Saints
Goals come by deflection, force, error or unpreparedness of the goalkeeper. No goal is scored when the ball is not shot at the goal. Really we engage in too much passing game that we miss opportunities to score. While we have our pointman in no. 9., we need to encourage Party, Odegaard and Xhaka to join Saka, Trossard and Nketieh to shoot from 20yard position to score goals.