MASSIVE PERFORMANCE -> MASSIVE POINT FOR ARSENAL
I’ll spoil the content right away for you: that was a brilliant, brilliant performance by Arsenal and any complaints show how ridiculously far we’ve come as a club.
People hammering 4-time Premier League winner Oleksandr Zinchenko for his error need to think about how much good-football-privilege you need to have to go there. We’ve had to watch Andre Santos in the last decade, now we have a Rolls Royce left-back who got done by a start-to-finish wonder goal from the best winger in the league at the peak of his powers. I can’t be having that. Is his defending as good as Tomiyasu" No. But can anyone in our backline open up a game like him and play with consistent bravery even after an error" No. Zinchenko is our TAA, a net plus that will always get into the big games because he is so, so good.
Worst of all, Zinchenko has IMPROVED a lot defensively.
Tackle Success rate – 78% – Top 10 in Europe (@Fbref)
Compared to Trent’s – 39%
Trent is widely known to create enough to “make up for it”.
Zinny inverted much more last season, factor to why we’re less free flowing. pic.twitter.com/AHZPaOePas
? Arsenal Media (@ArsenalMediaX11) December 24, 2023
As fans, we’re moving into Luxury FC problems. It is mad to gripe about a draw at Anfield with a team like the one they have, with a manager like Klopp, playing in a cauldron that had gasoline poured all over it.
Does that mean I won’t talk about th...
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