Arteta is by far the most terrible signing we made this summer, and I include Jenkinson in that count. He completely kills our play in midfield, and when I say kill, I mean kill.
If there is a statistic for how many times we lose the ball following each player’s pass, Arteta would be by far number one (I refer to him passing the ball to a player that will then proceed to lose it, because the ball has been given to him in a really bad position).
His play consists solely of trying not to lose the ball before he then passes it to the flank, when there are incredible opportunities up front. For the Sunderland game, I doubt Van Persie ever got a half-decent pass and there were opportunities. Alex Song, playing as centre half, actually was the only player who did try to find him.
And even worse about Arteta is that just casually observing him play or looking at his stats he does not look bad at all – making a lot of passes, most of them marginally forward (cos they are at the flanks!), not making many mistakes.
No comments:
Post a Comment