Thanks to the awesome reception of my last post, here’s to continuing it with another set. Apologies for the compilation of the photos, thats the best i could do (not that tech savvy).
- Carl Jenkinson
- Gervinho
- Denilson
- Francis Jeffers
- Jeremy Aliadiere
- Emmanuel Frimpong
- Julio Baptista
- Lord Bendtner
- Andre Santos
- Manuel Almunia
- David Suker
- Emmanuel Eboue
Post ACL Bellerin was quite frustrating for me, sadly he lost his pace but he also lost that bravery to try to beat his man for some reason, kept playing safe passes, didn’t try as much to run down the line and cross, and of course later the foul throws
He never beat his man before ACL
Yeah I thought he’d one of our best ever RB when after his first couple of years in the first team. Was absolutely rapid and technically sound. The injury took 25% off his pace
I find it hard to put into words, but Bellerin is the player where I felt a long period of time where my brain just refused to accept he wasn’t good anymore, more than anyone else
(I’m bad at English)
I recently went through the same with Tierney. I thought he looked to become a proper captain at the club for years to come.
I feel like people sometimes forget that it wasn’t just the injury that wrecked him. He already looked a bit slower by 17/18 than he had in previous years
He’d had a good albeit inconsistent run under emery pre ACL, and admittedly was having a great game when he got injured, but tbh I found him quite frustrating from basically 2017 onwards
I think after he lost his pace, his entire game fell apart. Pre-ACL Bellerin was extremely fast, had decent technicals and was also an alright defender. His pace set him apart but it wasn’t like he was a shitty footballer beyond that.
After his injury he seemed to lose his footballing brain and all his skill sets.
… and I feel he is partly responsible for Pepe never amounting to anything for us. You see how Blanco and Saka work together: every match it looked like Pepe and Belletin just met for the first time.
Pepe and Bellerin just were terrible together. Pepe actually had a decent chemistry with Cedric. I think it’s because Cedric was very eager to overlap while Bellerin just gave width.
Arsenal fan tries not to blame Pepe’s lack of success for Arsenal on anything but Pepe himself: IMPOSSIBLE EDITION