In 2006 AW tried to emulate the Barcelona style after losing in the Champions League final, although the team now has more resemblance to Real Madrid with more direct and fast players.
Bale = Walcott
lightning speed, direct running, goalscorer
Ronaldo = Sanchez
fast and direct with more skills and dribbling ability, goals
Rodriguez = Özil
playmaker, creative, stylish
Benzema is there to work hard to give these players the spaces to play, his primary role above goalscoring duries. In fact this is the reason they said no to Falcao, a superior player.
Welbeck has the qualities to play this role while scoring his quota of goals, the players are not the same level as Madrid of course but the system is the same
Ramsey/Wilshere/Flamini
Walcott===Özil===Sanchez
========Welbeck
Kroos/Modric/Khedira
Bale===Rodriguez===Ronaldo
========Benzema
What do you think?
Welbeck can be Arsenal's Benzema
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K 3.
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will always see one cam on the wing to avoid a massive gap in midfield imo
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This is true as it's something Wenger has always done.
We have had a few more direct players from the wings over the years like overmars, ljungberg, walcott, podolski but looking back majority of the players (mainly on the left) have been attacking mids like Pires, Rosicky, Nasri, Hleb, Benayoun and now Cazorla
However Sanchez and even the Ox for me both have it in them to play either way. if you want them to drift in and link with the midfield they can do so comfortably or if you want them to use their pace and be more direct they can do that too.
This is why for me Walcott should be playing as a right sided forward and Sanchez on the left in the Santi role but can play more direct too if required. Ox should be main back up for sanchez and Cazorla shoud be in AM
posted on 3/9/14
Whats the point
posted on 3/9/14
Overmars would make us so much better
posted on 3/9/14
Welbeck has the qualities to play this role while scoring his quota of goals
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6 months ago if we suggested this to you, you'd have called him crap
posted on 3/9/14
Welbeck is nothing like Benzema.
posted on 3/9/14
This really needs to stop now. Beyond embarrassing.
posted on 23/9/14
Talk to me