For example: Mesut Özil - shooting. Doesn't seem to have any confidence in his scoring capabilities and tends to pass up on opportunities. Pre-season he looked to have turned a corner in that regard, but I honestly don't back him to score with any regularity.
Posted Apr 7, 2016, 8:02 PM UTC
Whole team - thighs.
Love, Santi
Jack Wilshere. Titanium ankles
Jack Wilshere. Titanium lungs
Ramsey. First touch. Baffles me how a player who can score Van Basten-esque volleys with ease can have such an average first touch.
He has no close control. He's capable of busting out a roulette or a piece of skill but he never looks comfortable with the ball at his feet and I don't think he can ever develop that now at his age.
That wouldn't be the one thing which I'd hope Ramsey improved on though.
usually players with great ball-control have excellent touches to booth. They kind of go hand in hand. Ramsey's control is not even his biggest problem. He can improve just by releasing the ball quicker and not dribbling into tight spaces, since he doesn't have the technique to get out of those. Ramsey's biggest problem is his inability to string together two or three passes without losing the ball.
I bet he has the worst passing accuracy in the team.
I think his passing accuracy is pretty good, but we all know that STATS don't tell the whole story. When you watch Ramsey you can just see that he doesn't handle pressure very well, he also holds onto the ball too long. When it is time to make those decisive and transitional passes, he usually scuffs it. If he gets under pressure, he loses the ball easily.
Welbeck- finishing. He'd be perfect then
I don't think it's even finishing. He's a pretty fine finisher, I think it's more of the fact that he doesn't get into goalscoring positions enough.
Both are an issue, but this is the main problem for sure. Welbeck hardly misses sitters at Arsenal, he just doesn't get into the positions to score or miss them enough.
Rosicky - health/age
:( I'm gonna miss him so much
Sanchez- Team work.
Ozil: scoring
He has stepped it up this season tbf, he could be a bit more clinical though.
If Girouds right foot was half as good as his left he would be great.
Even with a Right foot he would still be slow as shit, ping the ball around randomly on first touches in the box for link up play, and would bottle every other clear cut 1v1 he gets with the keeper.
God, you are miserable.
He is telling the truth though. Giroud has some of the slowest reaction time I ever seen. He tries to many flicks in the box (when they come off, they look great), but often times they don't. His reaction-time is basically what separates him from other great forwards at this level.
How do you perceive reaction time?
Jesus dude.. The man has been our only consistent forward this season lay off.
With a right foot, he'd be able to do double the number of outside of the boot flicks to no one!
Bellerin - Crossing and positional awareness
Giroud - Finishing and general consistency
Welbeck - Finishing, Balance(?), confidence. He should look at Kane and his confidence obviously Kane is such a natural goal scorer but he should be watching him.
Ozil - Overall finishing, it's like he can't shoot properly, volleys, one touch finishing, for such a quality player it's like he's regressed over the years.
Alexis - release the ball earlier ffs.
I know you said one but yolo.
Özil: More confidence in his shooting abilities cause he has the tek to score a banger whenever he wants to
Someone needs to explain to him that finishing is like passing to the corner of the net.
It's more than that though. Ozil just doesn't seem to have the killer instinct. He already has good technique with his shooting and moves well without the ball, he just not a natural goal-scorer. Bergkamp found a way to balance playmaking and goalscoring, hopefully Ozil can learn to do the same.
Ox: Finishing and Confidence
Mertesacker: speed
Giroud- consistency throughout the entire season. Jenkinson-tackling
Jenko - being a right back
Piss off, yes he had a poor season but he was fantastic last year and has been good for us. Better back up than Debuchy and can teach Bellerin how to cross
Bit rude; yeah always liked the lad, just thought it was funny to suggest he needed to improve the one most important skill as a full back
Bellerins crossing. Has been fantastic has gotten great amount of assists this season but the amount of wasted crosses from him this year has been pretty frustrating at times
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Flamini. Would be great if he picked up his pal Ozil's technique of remaining ice cold under pressure. Flam loves adrenaline and emotional intensity, which he may think helps him stay sharp, but it overloads him instead. Just calm down, man
Giroud - Stop complaining to the refs after every call.
Obviously there are other things he can work on but this is a really simple one to fix and I think it would go a long way towards relieving frustration for himself and some of the fans
Imagine if welbeck had that killer instinct
Ramsey: positional awareness. Honestly, if Rambo knew when to push up and when to sit back I'd love to have him next to Coq but these past few months have shown they're a dreadful partnership.
He would also need to know how to pass and control the football for that to work. Ramsey is not close to the passer or dribbler that Cazorla is. And from what we have seen of El-neny, it seems like he is a better passer who releases the ball quicker than Ramsey. He also has better spatial awareness than Ramsey and actually cares about keeping the shape of the team.
Henry: age
Not a single doubt in my mind that this was going to be the top comment as soon as i clicked.