We think about most Arsenal followers simply need this season to finish now.
The North Londoners got here into the marketing campaign hoping to lastly elevate the Premier League trophy, go additional within the Champions League, and possibly even choose up a home cup or two.
Nonetheless, with one setback after one other, it is more and more probably that the membership will finish the season with none silverware, particularly following the information that Kai Havertz shall be out till subsequent season with a hamstring drawback.
The German’s harm and the prolonged record of absences imply there’s a excellent likelihood that Mikel Arteta must begin Leandro Trossard up entrance for the remainder of the marketing campaign, and whereas he is proven actual high quality in recent times, he isn’t been on the races this season.
Actually, an Arsène Wenger signing who was let go for nothing years in the past is at the moment outscoring the Belgian and would in all probability be a welcome addition to the Gunners’ wafer-thin assault.
Arsenal’s assault this season
It has been an odd season for Arsenal’s assault, as whereas there may be an plain sense among the many followers that they have not been scientific or harmful sufficient in a mess of video games, they’re nonetheless the second-top scorers within the Premier League with 49, though that’s seven fewer than title rivals Liverpool, who’re taking part in Everton tonight.
Sadly, it appears virtually assured that the North Londoners will fall additional behind the Reds on this metric following Havertz’s harm, as he was the workforce’s prime scorer with 15 targets and 5 assists in 34 video games.
Simply behind him is the additionally injured Saka, who managed to rack up a sensational haul of 9 targets and 13 assists in 24 video games, whereas Gabriel Martinelli is the joint-third prime goalscorer with seven strikes and 4 assists to his title and can be out injured.
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Arsenal’s top-scorers |
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|---|---|---|---|
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Participant |
Video games |
Targets |
Assists |
|
Havertz |
34 |
15 |
5 |
|
Saka |
24 |
9 |
13 |
|
Martinelli |
35 |
7 |
4 |
|
Jesus |
29 |
7 |
2 |
|
Nwaneri |
23 |
7 |
0 |
|
Trossard |
36 |
5 |
6 |
|
Magalhaes |
34 |
5 |
1 |
Stage with the Brazilian winger is Hale Finish star Ethan Nwaneri, after which rounding out the highest 5 is Gabriel Jesus, who can be on seven targets and, as soon as once more, out for the season.
Solely after these 5 gamers do you attain Trossard, who, alongside Gabriel Magalhaes, has scored 5 targets this season, though he has additionally supplied six assists in his 36 appearances to this point.
Briefly, Arsenal will want the previous Brighton & Hove Albion star to be at his finest for the remainder of the marketing campaign, however that appears unlikely when he is being outscored by a participant who left without cost six years in the past.
The previous Arsenal star outscoring Trossard
So, there are a number of former Arsenal gamers having fun with profitable campaigns this season, from Emile Smith Rowe and Alex Iwobi at Fulham to Alexandre Lacazette and Ainsley Maitland-Niles at Lyon.
Nonetheless, on this occasion, it is Brighton & Hove Albion star Danny Welbeck who’s continued his profession resurgence on the south coast this season.
The previous England worldwide joined the Gunners for round £16m in September 2014, and whereas he actually wasn’t dangerous, he by no means really shone both, and that, mixed with pretty persistent accidents, meant he by no means actually established himself as a necessary member of the primary workforce.
After 5 years, by which he scored 32 targets and supplied 13 assists in 126 appearances, the previous Manchester United gem left the membership beneath Unai Emery and proceeded to affix Watford on a free at the beginning of the 19/20 season.
Nonetheless, following an underwhelming marketing campaign by which he scored simply three targets in 20 video games, his deal was terminated by mutual consent in October 2020.
Simply a few weeks later, the then-29-year-old joined the Seagulls on a one-year deal and has not appeared again since, racking up a tally of 32 targets and ten assists in 147 video games, and, as former teammate Adam Lallana stated, taking part in at “a unique degree”.
This season has seen him discover the again of the web six occasions in 22 video games and supply two assists for good measure, so whereas he isn’t fairly as artistic as Trossard, he is been extra deadly in entrance of objective.
In the end, Arsenal shall be hopeful that the Belgian can rediscover his goalscoring kind from final season for the closing months of the marketing campaign, however we think about Arteta would like to have Welbeck in his squad proper now.
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