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Tom Huddlestone
Ten reasons why we won't make 4th place/finish above Arsenal
Ten reasons why we've blown 4th/finishing above Arsenal yet again
1. Being heavily reliant on one striker who is carrying an injury that potentially could keep him out for large chunks of the remainder of he season, another who has been hopelessly off-form (and is perhaps missing the link-up play with some others from last season) and another that cannot play as a lone forward (and is best coming from deep or the wing)
2. Our finishing is not the most ruthless; a fresh striker injection can give tyhe club a lift and perhaps also get existing strikers to up their game and perhaps new skills can rub off from the incoming striker
3. A big assumption is being made that Holtby canb help us craete more clear-cut chances; based on what exactly? Has he a large number of assists traditionally and is it fair to expect such a young player to have such a big impact at this crucial time (even he is talking about his best being seen NEXT season)
4. Arsenal always have a method that creates more clear-cut goal scoring chances and relatively more regularly. A consistent and reliable goalscorer could have allowed us to compete with this over the coming months; goals often mean wins even with their suspect defence. They have the ability to score buckets in certain games whilst we still don't
5. Most of the teams we play now will definately park the bus; do you feel more confident that we can overcome this compared to the last half of the least two seasons? I don't think so...
6. Mentally Arsenal will be bouyed by the fact we haven't capitalised on our position right now; They always feel they can catch and overtake us (see last season); They'll feel that even more, especially with their strikers staring to hit form AND score regularly. That will give them their mental strength to think they can beat us again (and confidence is sometimes the main thing that keeps them going)
7. Andre Santos doesn't need to play much now
8. We will be playing most of our top 3/4 challengers at home. Playing with a limited strike-force (or one uo top) is more condusive to playing away from home. At home when we will have to attack confidently and not get sucker-punched. This sucker-punch will be more likely now imo at home against the likes of Arsenal, Everton, Emirates Marketing Project etc. Even Saudi Sportswashing Machine...
9. Our defence is looking more vulnerble without Sandro in front of them; not getting another big strong CM (like Diame) would have been mitigated imo with another striker to relieve the pressure in terms of teams worring about our goal threat and being wary of over-pressurising us (which we seem more vulnerable to now, especially as our attack is not holding the ball up as we need them to, even with Ade who is our best person to do this)
10. We are starting to look a bit weary; again a new striker could have added some energy/rejuvination to the squad both physically and mentally.
A big missed opportunity AGAIN;feels like January 2011 all over again just without the CL games in Feb to look forward to. Maybe Levy has been the reason we haven't bought a good/consistent striker since GHod knows when...
Please tell me politely how i'm wrong (GHod i'd hope to be....)
Ten reasons why we've blown 4th/finishing above Arsenal yet again
1. Being heavily reliant on one striker who is carrying an injury that potentially could keep him out for large chunks of the remainder of he season, another who has been hopelessly off-form (and is perhaps missing the link-up play with some others from last season) and another that cannot play as a lone forward (and is best coming from deep or the wing)
2. Our finishing is not the most ruthless; a fresh striker injection can give tyhe club a lift and perhaps also get existing strikers to up their game and perhaps new skills can rub off from the incoming striker
3. A big assumption is being made that Holtby canb help us craete more clear-cut chances; based on what exactly? Has he a large number of assists traditionally and is it fair to expect such a young player to have such a big impact at this crucial time (even he is talking about his best being seen NEXT season)
4. Arsenal always have a method that creates more clear-cut goal scoring chances and relatively more regularly. A consistent and reliable goalscorer could have allowed us to compete with this over the coming months; goals often mean wins even with their suspect defence. They have the ability to score buckets in certain games whilst we still don't
5. Most of the teams we play now will definately park the bus; do you feel more confident that we can overcome this compared to the last half of the least two seasons? I don't think so...
6. Mentally Arsenal will be bouyed by the fact we haven't capitalised on our position right now; They always feel they can catch and overtake us (see last season); They'll feel that even more, especially with their strikers staring to hit form AND score regularly. That will give them their mental strength to think they can beat us again (and confidence is sometimes the main thing that keeps them going)
7. Andre Santos doesn't need to play much now
8. We will be playing most of our top 3/4 challengers at home. Playing with a limited strike-force (or one uo top) is more condusive to playing away from home. At home when we will have to attack confidently and not get sucker-punched. This sucker-punch will be more likely now imo at home against the likes of Arsenal, Everton, Emirates Marketing Project etc. Even Saudi Sportswashing Machine...
9. Our defence is looking more vulnerble without Sandro in front of them; not getting another big strong CM (like Diame) would have been mitigated imo with another striker to relieve the pressure in terms of teams worring about our goal threat and being wary of over-pressurising us (which we seem more vulnerable to now, especially as our attack is not holding the ball up as we need them to, even with Ade who is our best person to do this)
10. We are starting to look a bit weary; again a new striker could have added some energy/rejuvination to the squad both physically and mentally.
A big missed opportunity AGAIN;feels like January 2011 all over again just without the CL games in Feb to look forward to. Maybe Levy has been the reason we haven't bought a good/consistent striker since GHod knows when...
Please tell me politely how i'm wrong (GHod i'd hope to be....)
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