Arteta now has to get rid of Arsenal’s “Best Finisher” on CF

Although the title race is obviously all over, there is still a lot Arsenal play between now and the end of the season.

On Wednesday the artillery arrived at the time Champions League quarterfinals just for The second time since 2010By turning the PSV Eindhoven 9-3 to the aggregate, the next month will face a record 15 Real Madrid winners.

Meanwhile, u Premier leaguefailing to win a single of their last three, Mikel ArtetaThe team finds themselves in 15 points dealing with Liverpool but must be careful, because they could give up another place, potentially tear down the table if the shape does not improve.

On Sunday, Chelsea visits northern London and Gunners sought a third consecutive victory in the house over his fierce rivals First time since 1994And Arthte should configure his attack on the eve of this game, freeing the Arsenal clinical striker.

The end of Mikela Merino’s time as an improvised attacker

With Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus, they all set aside before in February in Leicester, a goal from the goals needed, Arteta threw away Mikel Merino As a central forward to King Power, or even couldn’t even predict how it would go through, Spaniard scored twice in six minutes to grab a victory.

Since then Merino has started All five Fixments as central forward, but it’s not a coincidence that Arsenal managed to win only one of those five, with Adam Bate from Sky Sports highlighting his serious “limit” as a striker, while Michael Cox from athletics It indicates what it looks like, a leading line, describing its performances as “predictable”.

This should not be too surprising given the merino Sam admitted that He has not played as an attacker of his seven years, adding “I’m trying to adapt. I’m trying to do things in the best way possible.”

Nevertheless, as Arsenal’s offensive troubles with injuries are slowly starting to alleviate, Arthta should put this experiment, which has certainly given mixed results, one side and release the best finisher at the club against Chelsea on Sunday.

The best Arsenal option in the center of the forward

Last Sunday at Old Trafford, during a rather insidious draw 1-1 with Manchester United, Gabriel Martinelli achieved its eagerly expected return, after more than a month aside Due to knee injury suffered against Newcastle.

He got half an hour Starting last weekend, before he gets another 11 minutes of his legs on Wednesday, and the return will allow Arteti to re -configure his line forward, arranging Martinelli on the left, along Leandro Trossard the best option through the middle.

Ever since he arrived from Brighton just over two years ago, the Belgian has collected 24 goals and 19 assists In 110 appearances for Gunners, making an average goal every 137 minutes; Last season in the Premier League, Looked back at 8th place for goals -so 90.

Ian Wright, once arsenal’s record goalkeeper of all time, Described Trossard as “Clinical”, believing that the “best finisher” is in the current composition, and in the past he distinguished himself as a central striker, with Arthom describing him as “Really good” in this position, adding that it manages “in small spaces.”

When asked what he believes is his best position, Trossard I said myself “I don’t really mind playing all these positions up … I always try to be in a box in good positions.”

Speaking to the Arsbelog PodcastAndrew Mangan and Lewis Ambrose agreed that they would rather see Martinelli judged through the middle, holding Tossard on the left, so let’s compare the duo to determine which option will function better.

Since the beginning of last season, Trossard and Martinelli have played an almost identical number of minutes, Brazilian has set only 223 more, which is an incredibly small difference in such a large sample size, which compared two very interesting ones.

Martinelli is a lot more dribbler, trying almost twice as many departure and progressive brackets, while Trossard scored more goals, accumulated multiple shots and has significantly larger goals – xg character, completing the ninth joint in The entire Premier League for this metric last season and the first among the Arsenal players.

These statistics emphasize why Trossard, stylishly, fits better in the middle than Martinelli, both against Chelsea on Sunday, but also forward, with a large connection against Real Madrid firmly on mind.

So, somewhat out of nowhere, with Ethan Nwaneri continues to impress, marked as ‘premature talent’ and ‘superstar’ author Adrian Clarke, while Bukayo Saka On the return of an injuryArsenal’s front three crossed from improvised and exhausted to be potentially scared.