Claudius We might be better off playing without a striker to be honest
This is what I said two weeks ago in the midst of a debate about Nketiah. Based on how the offense has had balance and flow since we dropped him, I think I called this right. Nketiah deapite his individual goal scoring threat was degrading our overall ability to create continuous and varied threat. Now we have an offense where all of our front 4 are continually active and getting chances, versus the predictable funnelling it to Saka so he can get kicked into the air.
When the Arsenal offense functions, our forwards each get about 40 touches. They all create for each other and take shots. When it came to a halt with Eddie, Martinelli would constantly get isolated, there were limited positional rotations and the ball would move slowly, making us easy to keep in front of the defense.
@Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert also called this.
