Nottingham Forest Manager, Nuno Esperito Santo, clearly explained that he sent his side with a back -four on Wednesday night because “Arsenal does not have a striker.”
The visitors without teeth failed to mark the second game in the turn, passing to a 0-0 Stow In the field of the city, which leaves them 13 points drift from the Liverpool leader in the league. Mikel Arteta lined up with Mikel Merino, a natural defensive midfielder, as a striker, as injuries to Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Haviertz and Gabriel Jesus limit the club’s attack options.
Forest has one of the most prolific strikers in the division but TNT Sports Pundit (and former arsenal), Martin Keown was more concerned with the defensive structure Espirito Santo deployed in the half week.
Great flight hosts have spent much of the season in a 4-2-3-1, but have opted for three central victory of the campaign. 7-0 Mauling of Brighton Earlier this month. When the tactical retouch was examined, Espirito Santo said goodbye: “I will tell you. Because Arsenal does not have a striker, with (Mikel) Merino playing in this position; no additional body is needed. The overload will be in the midfield and it is a matter of containing the midfield.”
Arsenal will continue to align -Soly with limited forward Arteta confirmed That Saka and Martinelli do not again until April again. However, looking at the campaign in full, Waning’s title challenges have been forceful, regardless of injuries.
The Gunners have failed to score in five different Premier League games this season. For comparison, Liverpool has only sent one blank.
Eight different clubs have made more traits than ArsenalThey are able to work the ball near the objective of the opposition, but they do it at a pedestrian pace, they always encounter a wall of meat when they end up throwing the trigger. More than 31% of this season’s arsenal features have been blocked, a proportion only two Premier League Clubs can overcome.
Arteta admitted that the individuals he went to in the absence of a recognized striker “is not about reaching the box and creating magical moments.” “We try to adapt to us and do the best we can,” he sighed after the Downish raffle with forest.
A figure that is more familiar with the fall of the penalty area is the striker of the Academy, Nathan Butler-Oyedeji. The 22 -year -old striker has contributed directly to 13 goals (scoring seven and in creating six) in ten appearances on the Premier League 2 this season, but was again an unused substitute on Wednesday night.
Khayon Edwards, the main scorer of PL2 with nine in 12, has trained with the senior side, but so far it has not appeared in a squad of the Premier League Matchday.
