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Eddie the cat

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Thanks for correcting. I genuinely thought it was spelt ‘Viera’.

flobaba

With the way we play, for this cat to be consistently impactful, he'll have to be Haaland level efficient.

goon

It's not even the efficiency, he needs to gamble a bit more and be more 'alive' in the box. Couple of moments where he's caught napping when we had the ball wide. He's never going to be as involved as Jesus or Trossard so he needs to make being a fox in the box his 'thing'.

That being said, I thought he did well yesterday and in general I think he's deputised very well for Jesus.

Qwiss

He's pretty important even in games like yesterday. Despite a lack of service he still pressed like a monster and he doesn't drop back and cause us to lose our shape against a low black the way previous strikers tended to.

Clrnc

Shocking challenge btw. Should have seen red and he does this too much for my liking

Qwiss

That's not a red, even the still shows his leading foot didn't catch him.

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I knew he was going to have a poor game after 5 mins. He has no presence has a striker and gives up too easily.

We should have really spent that Havertz money on a striker. Toney in Jan please, make Eddie 3rd striker at best.

Segway

Did absolutely nothing in today's game. Just awful. Looked like Mikel had brought a sprinter from the local athletics club to come play as our striker.

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Segway

He’s never going to be what we really need mate. Too hot and cold but a little adversity and he is done for. Didn’t even press properly at times today.

lorddulaarsenal

There was a spell last season where he looked electric. Pace to burn and was rolling defenders. Now he just looks like a youth prospect again.

We need more of a presence up top. Toney would improve us though I do think we should aim higher. Maybe treat ourselves to Boniface

naz

Eddie can play against anyone not in the top 10. He gets easily marked out of games against decent opposition. He's average.

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naz

He was shit v Everton too

Claudius

This is Eddie this week. He had a very similar pass map in the last game. He is a complete black hole in this offense. We would have been much better off with Jesus and Nelson .

Qwiss

You can really tell people have been sharpening their knives through Eddies good form just waiting for a poor performance.

Claudius

Qwiss I’ve been consistent about Eddie. Remember I advocated playing a midfielder ahead of him when Jesus went down last year.
Good finisher. Poor high press lead striker.

Meatwad

Qwiss
a poor performance? you can count his good performances on one hand.

Claudius
you're giving him way too much credit. he's not a good finisher.

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Qwiss

What form? A goal coming off the bench v Fulham is great but I’ve said he’s shit from day 1.

He’s marginally improved but if you take away his ‘fox in the box’ finishing which is not flawless (he still misses big chances) then he offers very little.

Clrnc

Qwiss the problem is his supposedly "good form" is barely acceptable at best. We are praising him for things that should be bread and butter or clutching at his improvements because he was so bad at those basics previously

awooga83

The reality is Eddie just isn't good enough. That's not really news too anyone but his quality is much lower then what we should aim for. Even Jesus isn't an elite striker but Eddie isn't in that good category either. We have seen enough to know that had not a player we can have leading games for us and not big matches. He was totally not involved at all today

Burnwinter

Personally don't think it's that much down to Nketiah how things went.

Put the responsibility where it belongs: with Arteta for selecting Nketiah and Jesus in the same side. It was dumb, coulda told you that before kickoff.

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