Wasn't impressed with Stones tbh. I have never heard of him, but surely he is not a right back?...Offered nothing going forward in a system that really needed attacking fullbacks and was caught out of position on a few occasions. Don't we have any decent rightbacks? What about that Spurs guy?
He was exceptionally poor to be honest, not sure how he's in the squad as is. He looked really very good at CB last year while Jag was out injured for Everton. I mean he looked great and in basically his first real run of games and at a young age. But yesterday at right back, if a player got within about 10 yards of him while he was facing up the pitch he was turning around and passing back instantly. He was painfully timid, no drive to go forwards down the right in the slightest. That might be understandable, even at times a manager might ask that of him, but he was refusing to just pass forward be it to midfield or down the right, he looked scared and completely over his depth.
Again we should be calling up Shaw(when fit) Cole and Baines and trying one of them on the right. Johnson is awful, Walker is even more useless and Stones isn't close to a right back.
I can't say I remember how he played against Leicester for Everton at right back but... based on last nights game it wouldn't have been good.
AS for Welbeck... score a couple simple goals, the exact kind that Giroud already scores for us... suddenly a great buy. Even though he played pretty much as Giroud would, messed up a fair amount, worked relatively hard, got two tap ins, nothing in his performance stood out as being something almost any striker could do and for Arsenal to move forwards we actually needed to buy a striker that could do things that most strikers can't...
That is before you realise Wenger has said he was already looking at Welbeck pre-injury to replace Podolski in a wide position(yes where he has Walcott, his love child who is near undroppable when fit, and spent £30mil on Sanchez, and wants to fit Cazorla and Ozil into the team....), when Giroud is back from injury Welbeck may be pushed back out wide.
As for Sturridge, better goals/shots ratio than Suarez, and most other players in the league. I cringe when someone bangs on about players having to finish any chance they get at "international level"... aside from international level football being quite some way below club level football in any decent league, no... no top strikers have a 1:1 ratio, or even close. At his best Messi hit about a 1 in 3 in a single season, most seasons it's somewhere between 1 in 3-5. Sturridge is in that bracket, as are most/all top strikers.
The best strikers who score a lot in internationals, shoot a lot too. Sturridge isn't selfish, he shoots, it's his job to shoot. If every played passed it because they might miss, no one would ever shoot. If you never shoot and only ever let one player shoot... then the defence has one player to mark. Everyone has too shoot a fair amount to remain unpredictable. The teams where everyone is afraid to shoot... fail.
