Rasmi
Negative Nancy
Country: England
3rd game in row he has been used on the right. Finally Arteta is using his brain
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Gabriel Martinelli: Dogged and Determined
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Country: England
Country: Canada
I think he looks so mid on the right.
Heavy Duty Rom
Outdated Tweets Merchant
What do you like about him there? Or just keen to try him on both flanks?
Black Noir
Active Member
Country: England
I know you despise the guy lol. But He looks dreadful, on the right , trossard, jaysus are better footballers to be fair . It is what it is.
Trossard and Jesus are better technicians - you can argue -, but Martinelli is definitely the better player.
Country: England
So is he dropped now?
Country: Canada
What makes you think he is? Bcz he's not starting at LW? Think it's more managing his foot and we've got options now Jesus/Trossard to play LW
Country: England
Yeah?
Country: Canada
He's just coming back from injury?
Rasmi
Negative Nancy
Country: England
A right footed winger should be able to play on the right. For me I would say most wingers should be able to play both wings
Country: Australia
I think Arteta saw something with Jesus on the left . He certainly had a lot of chances.
Batman
Head of the Wayne foundation for benching Nketiah
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
He missed almost a month and had only played like 15 minutes prior to yesterday. He'll definitely start some games between now and the end of the season. Havertz taking the CF role means that Jesus is now a wing option and this allows more rotation.
andeoch1
Active Member
Country: USA
But no end product, same old same old
Country: Australia
But no end product, same old same old
I think he thinks that has to change . His CL scoring XG is insane ,which tells me it's all between the ears.
Country: England
Okay, I was just asking tbf, have missed our last few games
Arteta likes having Jesus on the pitch with what he can do. If he is able to play, Arteta will get him on the field somehow. With Kai thriving and Saka entrenched and Trossard our best finisher, Martinelli has taken the spot Reiss hasn't really claimed.
Kai's emergence at CF has improved the depth of the forward position. Now Jesus doesn't have to play the whole game and we can still take advantage of his versatility from the wing. Trossard can stay fresh.
We'll need all those guys. Outside of Kai, the rest of the guys need the rotation to maintain fitness and health with the knocks they've had over the season.
Rasmi
Negative Nancy
Country: England
I think his days as nailed on starter is over. Probably will start cs Bayern due to Arteta not wanting to overplay jesus yet. But push come to shove jesus havertz and Saka will be main starters now
Martinelli is here to stay, so you are wrong as usual.
Nunowoolmez
Established Member
His end product needs to improve for him to be an automatic starter for me. Trossard has better end product at the moment. Nelli is only 22 still, so has lots of time to improve, but I don't think he should be a nailed on starter.
End product is similar.
In the last 365 days accoring to Fbref (Premier and UCL)
Trossard 0.49 non-penalty goals + 0.18 expected assists per 90 minutes.
Martinelli 0.35 non-penalty goals + 0.30 expected assists per 90 minutes.
But Martinelli was the pressure, tactical displine, ball carrying and speed advantage... and age on his side.
(Saka 0.34 non-penalty goals + 0.30 expected assists per 90 minutes with Ødegaard/White to help him and not playing alongside Tomiyasu/Zinchenko and Havertz LCM - like Martinelli did this season).
