Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: From Thriller To Bad, Should He Just Beat It?

[GDeep™]

Thought he looked abit lazy. As a footballer we know he’s limited as they come, so when you combine the two, it’s a car crash.

Dani put him through on the left, the guy cuts in and gives the ball away cheaply, for 4 minutes after that we didn’t touch the ball.

Why not drive at the full back? Try to beat your man?

 

[Batman]

Liverpool have Firmino in the middle. They have no creative players in their midfield at all (until Thiago recently). Salah and Mane are able to create chances for themselves in ways that Auba is struggling to.

Auba is getting the ball in wide positions and I’m expecting our star man to do more with it.

They create through Firmino creating space for the 2 wide forwards to run into. You not understanding how their system works does not negate the fact that chances are created for them.

Expecting a player to do something that is not their strength is silly. Do you think United supporters expected Van Nistelrooy to start doing stepovers and rabonas before whipping crosses in or did they expect that their poacher be put in position to poach? By the way, Auba created one of the best chances of the game putting a cross on Pepe's head. He's not scoring at the moment but let's not act like he's doing nothing. He's having to track back all the time as well. You'd struggle to name anyone who does the defensive work he's been doing under Arteta while scoring at the rate he has prior to this little cold spell.

 

[Manberg]

They create through Firmino creating space for the 2 wide forwards to run into. You not understanding how their system works does not negate the fact that chances are created for them.

Expecting a player to do something that is not their strength is silly. Do you think United supporters expected Van Nistelrooy to start doing stepovers and rabonas before whipping crosses in or did they expect that their poacher be put in position to poach? By the way, Auba created one of the best chances of the game putting a cross on Pepe's head. He's not scoring at the moment but let's not act like he's doing nothing. He's having to track back all the time as well. You'd struggle to name anyone who does the defensive work he's been doing under Arteta while scoring at the rate he has prior to this little cold spell.

Tracking back is a basic requirement. Salah and Mane do that too. They seldom get praised for it. We have Lacazette occupying that Firmino role, creating space. Firmino doesn’t create too many chances though. Their goals and chance creations from those two wide players and their fullbacks.

 

[Football Manager]

Do people believe playing in the middle means he just need to be fed? Do people think he doesn’t need to make creative contribution in the general play?
People are screaming for beautiful possession football, but if you are one man down in the creative process, you won’t dominate the other teams.

Wouldn’t it be nice if auba could do some of these?

And wouldn’t it be nice if auba could drop outside the box at times to help the play, so we are not one man down when we are trying to pass the ball around to find some space? So we can create more possession, create more dangerous chances (as we have more people helping to build up the attacking), and lead to more goal scoring opportunities for himself and for the whole team?

Benzema would operates like iniesta at times, pass the ball around, offer passing options, and occasionally make those pin point through pass that cut through the opponent’s defence. Is auba capable to involve that much in the general play? If not then we are one man down in possession (3 man down if Özil and laca are also on the pitch). We would not able to keep any possession, and we are forced to play defensively and opt for a counter attacking system. And as a result, less chances will be made as a team, and we are far less entertaining than we used to be.

The above is just the passing part (or the involvement in general play part). How about individual skills? If you don’t have that as a striker chances are you will lose the ball in one v one. If there are defenders and you do not have support yet, you will lose the ball. Look at what van persie/Firmino/benzema could do in those situations in the video. They control the ball in crowded area and maintain possession. Then more chance will be created. And we will not be forced to play defensively. Or how about if they use this skillset to create space (if you dribbled past a player, you will suddenly have so much more space to exploit) , drag defenders away so that we can create numerical superiority, create goal scoring chances when the opponent box is packed with players.

There are strikers that are relied to be feed. auba, owen, inzaghi, walcott......Their lack of contribution in the build up play makes the team less effective going forward, less capable of creating space/overload/possession. If they don’t score, they contributed nothing. Most of them are tactical liabilities.

And there are strikers that are heavily involved in the general play. Van Persie, Benzema, Firmino, Suarez......Even if they don’t score, they contributed so much in dribbling past players, controlling the ball in tight area to keep possession, passing play to create space.....which the team will benefits a lot from these plays.

 

[Manberg]

It’s not like Auba had to beat City’s whole defence, Auba just had to beat Kyle walker. Walker did a number on him, sadly.

 

[scytheavatar]

It's a mistake to give Auba his big fat contract, and it seems we have learnt nothing from the Özil debacle. How can we go around whining about Kroenke not giving us money to spend, when we are doing a terrible job getting the max out of the money we do have? When we pay a player 300k-350k per week you expect someone who can do more than merely playing well, you expect someone who is able to carry the team by himself the way Sanchez/Henry/Cesc/RVP carried us in the past. Auba is incapable of being that player, just like Özil he's icing in the cake and will never be the cake. He can only perform when the rest of the team is performing. And at his age his decline is something that is inevitable and totally expected, so no one can say they can't see his decline coming before he signed his contract.

 

[Geofranco]

It’s not like Auba had to beat City’s whole defence, Auba just had to beat Kyle walker. Walker did a number on him, sadly.

Walker is too strong for Auba, while also being just as fast or even faster at this point in their careers. Auba would have to be very slick with and without the ball to have a chance. Auba is really not that sort of player. He relies on others to create for him, once in a while he will score a world class goal from a great strike outside the box, but it won't happen very often.

 

[Fewtch]

It's a mistake to give Auba his big fat contract, and it seems we have learnt nothing from the Özil debacle. How can we go around whining about Kroenke not giving us money to spend, when we are doing a terrible job getting the max out of the money we do have? When we pay a player 300k-350k per week you expect someone who can do more than merely playing well, you expect someone who is able to carry the team by himself the way Sanchez/Henry/Cesc/RVP carried us in the past. Auba is incapable of being that player, just like Özil he's icing in the cake and will never be the cake. He can only perform when the rest of the team is performing. And at his age his decline is something that is inevitable and totally expected, so no one can say they can't see his decline coming before he signed his contract.

You guys weren’t saying this when he was scoring goals in the fa cup semi/final

 

[Macho]

You guys weren’t saying this when he was scoring goals in the fa cup semi/final

I’m just laughing.

I mean he’s definitely started slow and some adjustments need to be made but I wouldn’t be concerned just yet.

We create like 3 chances a game and he’s not a creative player.

 

[Big Poppa]

Walker is too strong for Auba, while also being just as fast or even faster at this point in their careers. Auba would have to be very slick with and without the ball to have a chance. Auba is really not that sort of player. He relies on others to create for him, once in a while he will score a world class goal from a great strike outside the box, but it won't happen very often.

Exactly. Walker played more narrow and tucked in vs the cup game too. Pep isn’t an idiot and the way to nullify Auba from that left side is fairly obvious. We should’ve changed it at half time.

 

[HairSprayGooners]

Expectations when entering this thread - seeing a post from @GDeep™ saying about how poor Auba is.

Reality - first post I see is @GDeep™ saying about how poor Auba is

 

[Riou]

Walker is one of the few players I have seen dominate Zaha, his pace and strength mean he is probably the best man-marker in the league...bit like us when we had Kolo, he's so difficult for attackers to get the better off, no shame for Auba here, should have adjusted and moved Auba's position though.

Still feel we were 100 percent right to give him the contract...yeah he isn't Henry with the ball, he needs to be "carried" to a degree...but it's only 4 games tbf without a goal, which included Liverpool and City, he started the season with 2 in 2 before that...he will be back scoring loads soon.

 

[GDeep™]

Expectations when entering this thread - seeing a post from @GDeep™ saying about how poor Auba is.

Reality - first post I see is @GDeep™ saying about how poor Auba is

Guy is dreadful though, no point beating around the bush.

 

[TakeChillPill]

Auba's stats in the last year have been insane. His shot to goal ratio was better by a mile compared to any of the top players including lewa, Ronaldo and Messi.

It was bound to dip at some point, but in saying that we just need to create more chances, simple as that.

 

[HairSprayGooners]

Guy is dreadful though, no point beating around the bush.

But when you just outright say Aubameyang is dreadful cant you see why you get intensely bad reactions?

He isnt dreadful, quite clearly. An elite goalscorer who is limited in overall ability but elite nevertheless.

 

[Monstar-Gunn4r]

Funnily enough the match yesterday went for Aubemeyang how I thought the FA cup match would. He got isolated by Walkers sitting on him along with the city team pushing over to the left so the centrebacks could help. It should have opened massive space for Pepe but well...

He needs to be able to move around a bit more or not carry the runs by himself so he can be marked out of the game.

 

[razörist]

It's a mistake to give Auba his big fat contract, and it seems we have learnt nothing from the Özil debacle. How can we go around whining about Kroenke not giving us money to spend, when we are doing a terrible job getting the max out of the money we do have? When we pay a player 300k-350k per week you expect someone who can do more than merely playing well, you expect someone who is able to carry the team by himself the way Sanchez/Henry/Cesc/RVP carried us in the past. Auba is incapable of being that player, just like Özil he's icing in the cake and will never be the cake. He can only perform when the rest of the team is performing. And at his age his decline is something that is inevitable and totally expected, so no one can say they can't see his decline coming before he signed his contract.

Bookmarking this, it has started early.

 

[The_Playmaker]

Auba played 10 mins at cf and created one big chance and missed a big chance. Teams are prepared for his out to in movement. The team now needs to develop away from only one form of build up. It is a systemic issue.

 

[Breezy]

It’s not the lack of goals that worries me at the moment. It’s his lack of application and motivation. He’s looking downright lazy at this point.

 

[Pyres7]

All of a sudden Arsenal fans are expecting Auba to dribble past three players and score himself. It's not the job of our midfielders or creators to make chances for him anymore, Auba has to make and score the chances himself.

He has always been a player who relies on service to score. He's an elite finisher, if we create chances for him he'll score them. The problem is we're creating **** all. It's more of a tactical/creativity issue.