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The Oxlade-Chamberlain / Joel Campbell thread

evoh

Clearly has a lot of talent?

Describe his talent or otherwise you are just spouting his fee, age, and England caps. This is a player with no touch and fantastic athletic ability who isn't doing his work for the team and is a total liability to our game.

Kel Varnsen

Shit haircut as well.

Cannon

Never got the hype. Was always a talent, but it takes far more to succeed.

Irishgunner

evoh wrote:
Clearly has a lot of talent?

Describe his talent or otherwise you are just spouting his fee, age, and England caps. This is a player with no touch and fantastic athletic ability who isn't doing his work for the team and is a total liability to our game.

Fantastic athlete who's a superb dribbler with a rocket of a shot, however his touch, decision making, and final ball consistently let him down. I'm confident that with games and an injury free spell those weaknesses will improve.

evoh

Superb dribbler? No see athetc ability.

Rocket shot? When? He had one banger for England against Brazil and hasn't done it regularly, i'd rather have someone who can hit the target thanks.

If he just goes into extra trading to simply sort out his dog shit touch then he has a chance as he is a supreme athlete and it is Making everything 3 times as hard for him. but otherwise I don't see him reaching anything like the initial expectaions of where he could end up as a player.

Qwiss

He is a very good dribbler, beats his man regularly. Its usually what he does after that which is the problem.

His shot might also be a rocket but its more often than not sent into orbit rather than at the goal.

MistaT

You can deny his talent based off his touch, vision, defensive nous, etc. but he certainly has a great shot on him.

Bar Ramsey there's not another player on our team that could drop these effortlessly.

Clrnc

And yet Ramsey's shooting has gone to the bin this season. In fact, its back to his awful finishing back in those days after his injury. Every shot this season has killed a bird above the stands.

Ox has done really well on the left. I think we should keep him there to let him regain confidence. Him on the right = dribble, take a too heavy touch and cross wildly over.

est

http://arsenalist.com/f/2015-16/arsenal-vs-man-utd/ooh-oxlade-chamberlain-hits-the-bar-right-at-the-end.html

He's so unlucky. Always hits the bar/post. And the injuries. Reminds me of van Persie from 2006-2010.

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Clrnc

I don't know why he didn't square it for Giroud tap-in, poor decision really.

evoh

Ox is still trying to do it for himself to get that goal. It was clearly better to square the ball and get the 4th. Though it hardly matters in scheme of a 3-0 win.

Meatwad

shit when you've been ass raped by them 8-2, every goal matters. 3-0 isn't a memorable result outside of this season. i wanted 6-0, but 5-0 would have been sufficient.

Klaus

Think it was the right decision to go for it himself. He needed a goal more than the team needed a 4th. It was a cheeky finish too and I like that. We need forward players with balls. Next time he'll be rewarded for it.

Clrnc

Meatwad wrote:
shit when you've been ass raped by them 8-2, every goal matters. 3-0 isn't a memorable result outside of this season. i wanted 6-0, but 5-0 would have been sufficient.

Yeah, I don't think we are ruthless enough when it comes to thrashing though.

Most of the time once we build up a comfortable lead we stop playing.

goon

Don't mind Ox being a little selfish, I think he's the sort of player that needs to be.

USArsenal

not so sure he even saw Giroud squared(ish), but very much behind him.. when you're put in like that, unless a square is a sure thing, try to take the chance yourself..

Rohit

Clrnc wrote:
Yeah, I don't think we are ruthless enough when it comes to thrashing though.

Most of the time once we build up a comfortable lead we stop playing.

We had enough high percentage chances to be appear really ruthless yesterday. Ramsey's misses, Ozil and Giroud hitting straight at the keeper when either side of him would have been a goal and Chamberlain hitting the cross bar.

We never stopped playing yesterday, we just played differently.

Segway

Clrnc wrote:
Meatwad wrote:
shit when you've been ass raped by them 8-2, every goal matters. 3-0 isn't a memorable result outside of this season. i wanted 6-0, but 5-0 would have been sufficient.

Yeah, I don't think we are ruthless enough when it comes to thrashing though.

Most of the time once we build up a comfortable lead we stop playing.

Hmm it could very easily have been 5 or 6 nil with Ramsey's, Giroud's, Özil's and Ox's missed chances in mind. We did very well to just sit back and hit them on the counter with our pace. Perfect game plan.

Clrnc

Rohit wrote:
Clrnc wrote:
Yeah, I don't think we are ruthless enough when it comes to thrashing though.

Most of the time once we build up a comfortable lead we stop playing.

We had enough high percentage chances to be appear really ruthless yesterday. Ramsey's misses, Ozil and Giroud hitting straight at the keeper when either side of him would have been a goal and Chamberlain hitting the cross bar.

We never stopped playing yesterday, we just played differently.

I don't think we countered well enough. If it was us being 3-0 down, you can be rest assured we will be countered like mad and get a real thumping.

Anyway, it wasn't in isolation to yesterday. I just feel we always shut up shop after we build a sizable lead.

USArsenal

Clrnc wrote:
I don't think we countered well enough. If it was us being 3-0 down, you can be rest assured we will be countered like mad and get a real thumping.

Anyway, it wasn't in isolation to yesterday. I just feel we always shut up shop after we build a sizable lead.

Playing a top side, playing out the game and winning professionally. we poured so much of our energy into the first half that we were never going to be as fluid and dynamic in the second. Luckily, we built a sizable enough lead to lock the game down. Not something we do very easily against better opposition.

United weren't going all gung ho and throwing all their players forward like we tend to do when we're behind (which is why we get picked off so easy that way)

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