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Started by xiaolan, 2018/03/05 03:39AM
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Arsenal hope of fast football again
#1   2018/03/05 03:39AM
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A few years ago, when Jens Lehmann was in between spells as an Arsenal player and coach, he explained a key to the Invincibles team with a teasing question: “What is the fastest thing on a football pitch?” he asked cryptically, looking smug as he waited for the wrong answer. “It’s not the ball,” he added, before the big reveal: “Nobody is faster on the pitch than a thought. And then the ball comes. And then the players come. I can honestly say between 2003 and 2006 we played such fast football. One touch. It was amazing to see.”
[img]http://www.footballchargersofficialstore.com//img/nike_nfl_jerseys... football. That is one of the aspects that has declined at Arsenal in recent years as the speedometer has dropped off. The high-velocity style Arsène Wenger encouraged when he arrived in England, the full-throttle bursts Lehmann watched take off in front of him, have become less prominent. When Arsenal struggle and slip into endless sideways probing, becoming exposed to the kind of errors and breaks that got punished so typically at Swansea, that is when they look a world away from the best Wenger teams of old.
[img]http://www.hockeyjetsofficialauthenticshop.com/images//nhl_jerseys_ne... Sánchez got fast football, with his indefatigable darting runs, sudden passes (even if they could be reckless) and the urgency he visibly demanded of others. But while he offered that individually, it is notable that Arsenal have not played with a high-speed team style for a while. That is partly because it is hard to achieve without an entire XI of extremely gifted and intelligent players. It does not help, though, that they have not reliably been built around a sprinter as their centre-forward since Thierry Henry.
In the last couple of seasons Sánchez had the odd stint as a central striker, as did Theo Walcott and occasionally Danny Welbeck. Olivier Giroud’s best asset was never pace. Alexandre Lacazette came in last summer for a record fee but is still finding his way in the team.
Enter Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. By Arsenal’s normal transfer standards this has been a radical January. Bringing in these two players allows them to attempt to regain a sense of fast football.
It is underestimating Aubameyang to pigeonhole him as a speed merchant alone – his timing to peel into spaces and connections with team-mates in creating as well as running on to chances make him more rounded than that. That said, his pace should have a strong impact in how Arsenal attack. The other obvious contribution on the fast football front is the fact he is coming as part of a proven pair. The bond with Mkhitaryan, given the understanding they shared at Borussia Dortmund, brings instant automatisms to Arsenal in the final third. Mesut Özil will presumably click into that pretty easily as well.
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