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The Aaron Ramsey Player Thread

kamikaze

asajoseph wrote:
Great dribble? He had a free run on goal and punted it way too far in front of himself.

yea it was pretty crap from start to finish. he's bereft of confidence at the moment - he needs to go back to basics and just keep things simple. seems like we're always saying that about him.

people say it didn't matter that we didn't score, but it does matter. you can't make a habit of not capitalising on gilt-edged opportunities, and goal differential could decide our league position as well. we have to be clinical and ruthless in front of goal, and this has been an issue with all arsenal teams over the last 7 yrs.

Claudius

Can just imagine if it had been Rosicky who missed that chance what the Ramsey groupies would be saying. There'd be calls for the Czech captain to be cast away to Siberia.

banduan

it was utterly shocking on multiple levels. He was through but so was Ox, there was a point where he could have squared it- but he had every right to try for it himself. He then took an awful touch and pushed it miles in front of him, acquitting himself by selling his shadow and setting himself up for a shot. He then takes forever to ready himself by which time someone has already recovered to block him. He has the option to square a screaming Robin. He takes a more difficult shot and fails. Astounding.

Mirth

He looked so awkward when taking that, even Chamakh would have hit the target, and his shooting technique is suppose to be one of his finer points.

Ah well, at least he's not as slow as people say he is.

Woolwichgooner

The problem is he is always doing it, he is not learning from his mistakes and it has nothing to do with being injured ages ago.

Even eboue would have passed the ball.

Mirth

Always doing that?

Woolwichgooner

Yes it's not the first time he has not passed the ball to a team mate in a better position, quite a regular occurrence infact.

lorddulaarsenal

To be fair, he does get it right sometimes. Marseille away springs to mind.

He just labours on the ball and slows us down. Would be better playing deeper. We can't carry him and theo in the front three at the same time

Woolwichgooner

Did he not pass to Henry when he was back and Henry went mad?

Mirth

Leeds game, I think? But incidents like that are few and far between, not sure what you're getting at. Generally I feel Ramsey hasn't been getting into the box often enough to score goals.

His real problem, which was an issue even when he was playing reasonably well is the amount of time it takes for him to sort his feet out. Particularly with the way we play, he's got to be a lot more silky in his touch.

Woolwichgooner

My point is it happens all the time. If a club legend like Henry goes mad at you, you take notice not continue with this big ego thing.

Mirth

Ego? Come off it.

Ivansen

He was perfectly entitled to have a shot there. He should have scored, and he probably would have 9 out of 10 times. There's no reason to think a goal would have been more likely had he attempted a pass rather than a shot.

His shot was woeful though, and he's rightly critisized for that howler.

asajoseph

He's missed a lot of sitters / good chances this season. 9/10 is massively generous.

Woolwichgooner

He probably would have missed 9/10 on his form tbf.

Lukazan

The whole thing was horrible. Not only did he miss by a mile but he took an age to get the shot off. By the time he'd fumbled around with the ball, taken that extra touch and had readied himself to shoot, the gap at the far post had just about been covered so the ball probably would of been blocked if he'd got it on target anyway.

A couple of nice twist and turns here, a nice through ball there aside, Ramsey's had a very poor season and shouldn't be anywhere near the starting line-up once Wilshere returns.

Doc

It's a shot that was devoid of any confidence.. He has a lot better shooting technique then that but hiS overall game is not good enough.. Been saying for a while now, he shouldn't be anywere near the first team but if he has to get minutes he should be playing the Arteta role to focus on the basics..

RonBurgundy

Fact is that his finishing has been awful all season. His miss yesterday wasn't a one-off.

Qwiss

Lukazan wrote:
The whole thing was horrible. Not only did he miss by a mile but he took an age to get the shot off. By the time he'd fumbled around with the ball, taken that extra touch and had readied himself to shoot, the gap at the far post had just about been covered so the ball probably would of been blocked if he'd got it on target anyway.

The time he took was great. Too often in the past he's rushed it. How he then managed to fluff it then I don't know.

He gets in great positions but he needs to work on his finishing. Maybe he should join Theo for RVPs training session.

Ricky1985

I don't think he needs to work on his finishing, he doesn't lack anything from a specific technical standpoint and he won't improve his composure in training, it'll improve on it's own with confidence.

What worries me right now is how unbalanced he looks in everything he does, he lacks the agility of even ordinary footballers. When he breaks into a full sprint he looks close to falling over, every time, no chance of controlling the ball properly like that.

I hope it's because he's got a tad taller and a lot stockier since he broke his leg and it will take him a little time to adjust to that - time for his legs to catch up and give him a stronger base for his bigger frame.

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