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You want to score more goals? Maybe we need our 2 high 8s to actually start creating stuff. Teams in the big 6 get more creativity from fullback than we are getting right now from those positions. Odegaard where are you, i miss you
Yesterday we had the attackers everyone preferred. We ended up getting a goal from the one they didn’t like.
The goals problem is in the front three. The ball got there. We all saw it. It was the behaviour in the final third. Odegaard sent in crosses. Zinchenko did. Martinelli tried to – everyone did. It’s the precision in the final third.
Striker rumours aren’t unfounded. We badly need someone at the end of everything we are doing to get the ball in the box.
You see our incredibly slow pace of play and lack of risk taking from our front 5 and your only takeaway is “this is all Ødegaard’s fault!”?
Before the Sevilla game Martinelli said Arteta told him and Saka to let it loose, take more risks, and attack their man. IMO think we’ve made them all overly cautious if they need to be told to do that.
Also just the speed of play when attacking needs to go up a level. It really felt like we were time wasting from the opening minute against Brentford.
Odegaard for the most part has either been double marked in a congested midfield OR not been serviced balls with whoever’s in the 6 position. There was one match where he was wide open in really good spaces where we kept servicing the ball to the left flank which was congested with defenders bc we’d done that play 3 times already and defenders cottoned on.
I don’t see Odegaard as a very creative 8 and I don’t know how much he can develop his game, but I think Rice has the potential to be a play maker if only he works on receiving with back to goal and then carrying & making progressive passes forward that find Odegaard.