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Claudius Trossard has been a phenomenal scorer but he’s as shit as Theo Walcott in build up.

Trossard only plays for an hour, I think the club believes he lacks the athleticism to go at that job hard enough over ninety minutes. They put Jesus and Martinelli on the same roster, none of them every plays ninety because the role is too demanding.

Thing is, if you get a more dangerous, comprehensive talent out there the running, which is often thankless work to create width for our right side fetish, would actually reduce if anything.

    I reckon timber will go a long way to resolving the lack of danger from the left side, but a fast, hard-running bomba of a left winger to pair with timber would be good too

    Agree that we are very predictable with our distribution with Ode and Saka always sucked to the right and opponents can crowd that quite well. It was crying out for us to move across but we haven't yet got the set up for that it seems. Also agree that we need a counter attacking out, when we attack it's always slowed down and we miss a lot of the moments Liverpool utilised at their best to kill a team that was having a good moment and getting at them when they haven't organised.

    Claudius The concentration of Odegaard, Saka and White, and even Rice and Saliba at times, draws in so many opposition players at times and we're very slow to move away from it. The space is there across the other two thirds of the park but we move it with short passes to nearest man. Arteta will have his reasons for not switching it quicker but I get frustrated when I see the space and our indifference at trying to use it quickly.

        Tam Was it White or who that said Arteta don't encourages diagonals and switching of play?

        EDIT: Oh it was Rice.

            Clrnc tbf he said Arteta doesn't like diagonals if there's no advantage to it.

            Which is kind of a sentence completely devoid of information because nobody likes anything unless they think there's an advantage to it.

              Diagonal passes that are floated across are of no use.

              Cross field passes that are pinged across with pace like Alonso used to are incredible

                Mirth Exactly that, and with Odegaard and Saka being left footed there's no reason we can't be switching more directly instead of the slow and laboured short passing route through the defence.

                    Ben White has issues dealing with tricky wingers 1v1, not the first time this has happened. Thought yesterday was one of his worst performances in recent months.

                      Mirth it also depends how you play. We have our full backs tucked, it means a switch of wings like that is less useful. If you play the "Scholes pass" and you have full backs and wingers who stay wide like Scholes had and you actually use a lot of wing play it makes sense.

                        Tam I do find it annoying at times that we have men in acres of space on the opposite side of the pitch and the ball will come from Saka back to midfield and instead of moving it and stretching the defence we more often than not just pass back into the congested area and ask Saka and Odegaard to find a way through.

                            JazzG white just had a very poor game all round. Nothing to do with how good Ganacho is imo

                            He probably made ganarcho more dangerous than he is

                              Qwiss That's another thing Rice said Arteta likes... going back through the same side when defence starts to move towards the switch.

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