Hahaha, Sanga the fullback? Has he ever got an assist from a cross and he can't even pass properly at the moment?
Arshavin has been tried repeatedly and suffers from lack of effort which it precisely what you are slating Walcott for, we don't play him and no one else wants him.
Rosicky, is best through the centre but even at his best for us has never delivered goals nor assists.
Bendtner lol, useless everywhere he's been.
Diaby, not a wide player, awful in 50% of his games.
Ramsey awful in his best position which is central.
AOC, too inconsistent at present, offers nothing in final third as yet.
Arteta on the right? Honestly?
Jenkinson is a full back again and best deployed there, no goal threat although not a bad crosser.
Yes Walcott has had a couple of bad games up top, a few bad ones on the right too but he's still the best we have and without his goals and assists this season we'd be struggling even more.
Walcott has had a few GOOD games upfront, or on the wing, his entire time at Arsenal.
Without his goals, of which precisely one goal of his has made a difference to the result, an away draw at Everton, we'd be one point worse off.......
Its NOT about individual goals and assists, its about the TEAM< he makes the team worse. He provides zero interplay with the midfield/wide players when he plays upfront, when he plays on the wing he offers nothing at all defensively. We're a worse team when he plays, and the vast majority of his goals, as all other seasons have come in games where we have absolutely dominated anyway, often against poor opposition and he still generally has woeful games but gets on the end of others work.
Any team can play pretty much any way, Stoke play for freekicks/corners, and get certain players loads of goals, does that mean say Huth is the bestest goal scorer around, or just he happens to benefit from the way the team plays.
When the entire team works almost exclusively for Walcott, he's usually crap, gets the odd goal and Arsenal are having a terrible season. We have the 11th best home form this season, we were poor last season and at the same time of year we've played one game more and have 2 points less.
Arshavin only stopped trying once Wenger decided he wasn't part of the team, even so in his few appearances he's generally been WELL above the average player in the squad and he certainly works harder than Walcott, without question. In his last "full" season(Wenger only started him 25 times league, 3 in the champs league) he had 10 goals 18 assists, he hasn't had a full season since.
Bendtner worked harder than Walcott ever did and across all the Barca games was our probably hardest working player and one of the most effective, and useless everywhere he's been, simply rubbish.
Diaby is rubbish, and he's better wide than in the middle and he's still better than Walcott.
The team has gotten consistently worse the more Walcott has been involved, that should tell you something, as should watching the games where he can't be arsed to do anything most of the time. Close people down, nah, just jog to within 15 yards then stop, pressure the keeper, nah, too much effort, stop 20 yards away rather than risk getting hit with the ball or something.
Walcott is basically the poster boy for everything wrong at Arsenal, valueing pace above ability, ignoring how lazy and pathetic he is, allowing a player to play on the right but hasn't learnt where he should be defensively and allow him to rarely if ever bother tracking back.
Podolski, Santi, Arteta, AOC, Ramsey, all of them look worse when Walcott is upfront, because they can't play "with" Walcott, there is no pass to walcott and make a run and get it back, there is a single option. Wait for him to make a run and pass him in behind, pray he's onside and pray he can be bothered to run after it.
Podolski/Santi have looked woeful when Walcott has been upfront on his own, slightly less bad when Gervinho us upfront on his own, and like quality players when Giroud is upfront on his own.
Arsenal's best performances came with Walcott on the bench, since December or so with Walcott playing upfront more we got some results, against two of the worst teams in the league and two teams out of form Walcott managed to impress in none of them, Arsenal scraped results in two of them and and only "beat" Necastle convincingly in the final 25 mins when Pardew took off every key player on the pitch for them, up till that point we were incredibly lucky to still be in the game.
Arsenal + Walcott upfront, everyone plays worse, we fluked results against the bottom of the table, and dropped points against another crap team(who outplayed us).
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