I have consistently been moved to write about Arsenal’s attack this season because it is, to my mind, the most intriguing area of the squad. The forward line contains a lot of top class players but it is not straightforward to envisage how they fit together- this is not just a mathematical conundrum either, it’s a question of tactical balance. I have written about it so often that we are past the point of embedding links neatly into the text. It’s now a link farm and every week it hatches new eggs. On Sunday, Arsenal started Danny Welbeck, Alex Lacazette, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Alex Iwobi together. Arsenal’s three big ticket attackers- Mesut Özil, Pierre Emerick Aubameyang and...
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