Gabriel Jesus: Will He Score Again?

[Trilly]

I remember that, you’re totally spot on.

The backing of an esteemed poster like yourself is always appreciated

 

[Heavy Duty Rom]

For me, the attack isn’t the issue. We were soo good early on because we would win the midfield battle, Partey, Xhaka, Ødegaard were all in top form. Win the midfield and you’ll most likely win the game.

This needs to be addressed first, we saw this season, when one of the three drop out, the whole team suffers.

 

[Rasmi]

You defo said it. You’re just gonna lie now?

I was talking about he’s never been clinical, isn’t a natural goalscorer, asked to stop playing up front for Brazil, called himself a winger etc etc

You said it’ll be different at Arsenal as the main man.

Definitely something he would say. I believe you

 

[Heavy Duty Rom]

You defo said it. You’re just gonna lie now?

I was talking about he’s never been clinical, isn’t a natural goalscorer, asked to stop playing up front for Brazil, called himself a winger etc etc

You said it’ll be different at Arsenal as the main man.

Do you not think he was a massive part of our form and quality of football up until the World Cup?

 

[Rasmi]

Jesus had 11 appearances before the World Cup he didn’t score in

 

[Heavy Duty Rom]

Jesus had 11 appearances before the World Cup he didn’t score in

But we were playing well and winning games no?

 

[Heavy Duty Rom]

We had Auba who scored goals and people would complain that he doesn’t make the team better, he doesn’t contribute, he’s lazy.

 

[HighburyHigh]

Jesus is just mediocre in my opinion. Not bad but not great either.
We need a clinical striker 25 goals man. I would have took a punt on Toney but his ban has put paid to that.

 

[Rasmi]

But we were playing well and winning games no?

Yes and as fans when we winning we don’t look deeper on things and it glosses over everything

And the people who had doubts were shut down we winning and top of the league

 

[Heavy Duty Rom]

Jesus is just mediocre in my opinion. Not bad but not great either.
We need a clinical striker 25 goals man. I would have took a punt on Toney but his ban has put paid to that.

Toney scored 20, 6 of which were penalties. Another 7 from set pieces. Now, I get, goals are goals, but for context, that’s 7 he’s scored from open play.

Jesus also ended with more assists, having played 1000 minutes less.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Hopefully, he will come back stronger next season. He was playing at a very high level before his injury IMO. Needs more goal contributions from him next season if he wants to continue to be our starting striker. I will pray!

 

[OnlyOne]

You defo said it. You’re just gonna lie now?

I was talking about he’s never been clinical, isn’t a natural goalscorer, asked to stop playing up front for Brazil, called himself a winger etc etc

You said it’ll be different at Arsenal as the main man.

Find it. I barely read your post I’m out and I’ll deal with this in the morning.

 

[Paperino]

He hasnt mssed half the season btw.

 

[RandomHero84]

He made me feel really quite angry today. Players who throw themselves on the floor after going in weak to every 50/50 and second ball are not my type of player. I was excited about him joining, that feels more muted now.

I'd love another option that keeps more positionally disciplined, and we can hit directly without the ball bouncing right off him. I acknowledge that he is more than his last few games, but the sum of his parts aren't adding up to good watching for a while now.

 

[kofigunner]

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needs to be more clinical , his goal conversion of 18% needs to go up. Let’s see if he can kick on next season.

 

[RunTheTrap]

I would like us to sign Kolo Muani

Saliba and Muani having a w@nk-off in the changing rooms when we beat United at Old Toilet.

 

[Trilly]

Do you not think he was a massive part of our form and quality of football up until the World Cup?

I’m not actually mad at Jesus. Rate him highly and think he could easily be a starter in a CL/PL winning side.

But main man/goalscorer? No.

And that’s the argument I was having with OO before we signed him.

 

[Batman]

I'd say since RvP, but yeah you're right about not having THE guy up top for a long time.

Yeah, Judas is the only guy since Henry who could just decide we weren't losing that day and impose himself on the opposition to that extent. Alexis wasn't quite at that level but he was that sort of player in patches as well. We saw it really briefly in that FA Cup run with Auba too. We don't have that player in this squad. Every title winning side has at least one. Gundo turns into Zidane with a title on the line. Haaland certainly looks like he's going to score no matter how he's playing. Until we have a guy like that, it will be really hard to win the biggest prizes.

 

[MartiSaka]

Yes. I am not going to judge him off the back of a meaningless game where the whole team is completely switched off and out of sync. I will judge him off what i saw while he was fully fit, pre World Cup, and that Jesus, i loved.

I wonder if that was part of the problem since coming back, he was highly motivated for the WC and has had trouble motivating himself back to those peak levels. He just doesn't seem to have the same intensity and fight since coming back, could be injury related also I guess. He is still a good player, but he was bordering on world class prior to WC.

 

[Hunta]

Crying faced bastard.

Send him back to Brazil.