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

[Trilly]

Auba will move central next season, maybe towards the end of this one. People saying he shouldn't be LW need to be examined though. He's just fluffing chances atm, still doing the same things he's always done from LW but not scoring the goals.

If he was finishing his chances nobody would be saying a bad word.

Bro, his open play xG is 0.5 in the league. That is awful.

Dominic Calvert Lewin's is 5.22 for comparison.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Bro, his open play xG is 0.5 in the league. That is awful.

Dominic Calvert Lewin's is 5.22 for comparison.

It's so annoying when he gets passed the ball outside the box and they expect him to do something there. No one wants to see Aubameyang with the ball at his feet, he needs to be making runs.

 

[Hleb's Sirush]

He's just fluffing chances atm, still doing the same things he's always done from LW but not scoring the goals.

If he was finishing his chances nobody would be saying a bad word.

You must have been watching a different player. Auba has hardly been getting shots in let alone fluffing many chances.

Excluding the penalty against Man Utd he has had a paltry 9 shots in the 7 games we played in the league. That is just slighty above 1 shot a game. How the **** is any forward meant to work with that. Harry kane probably gets presented with that amount in just one game.

You know there is something really not working when Auba has 12 attempted tackles in that period. 12 tackles to nine shots! Unbelievable stat for a forward who lives on his finishing. Not sure how anyone can still try to blame Aubameyang for not producing goals when literally he is putting in more tackles than he gets a sight of goal to attempt a shot.

 

[Football Manager]

You must have been watching a different player. Auba has hardly been getting shots in let alone fluffing many chances.

Excluding the penalty against Man Utd he has had a paltry 9 shots in the 7 games we played in the league. That is just slighty above 1 shot a game. How the **** is any forward meant to work with that. Harry kane probably gets presented with that amount in just one game.

You know there is something really not working when Auba has 12 attempted tackles in that period. 12 tackles to nine shots! Unbelievable stat for a forward who lives on his finishing. Not sure how anyone can still try to blame Aubameyang for not producing goals when literally he is putting in more tackles than he gets a sight of goal to attempt a shot.

How about replacing Auba for someone who can dribble his way to the opponent box? So that the striker can actually create chances for himself.

Or having someone who has the ball control/passing ability to play like an attacking midfielder? So that our team can have more possession, and can create more chances.

How about having a striker playing like van Persie/Benzema/Suarez/Firmino who is better on the ball and contributing more in the general play? Auba is way too limited. He has great pace, movement and finishing but shxt in everything else.

 

[Geofranco]

How about replacing Auba for someone who can dribble his way to the opponent box? So that the striker can actually create chances for himself.

Or having someone who has the ball control/passing ability to play like an attacking midfielder? So that our team can have more possession, and can create more chances.

How about having a striker playing like van Persie/Benzema/Suarez/Firmino who is better on the ball and contributing more in the general play? Auba is way too limited. He has great pace, movement and finishing but shxt in everything else.

The player we need to replace is Laca. He is the one meant to be more well rounded.

Auba is fine, even though he is limited, he is still one of the top 5 finishers in the world.

That is not something that is easy to replace. We need a better GK than Leno, another CB that can partner Gabriel since Saliba isn't ready.

We also need two midfielders to help Partey out (Xhaka and Ceballos not good enough, El neny is more of a squad option).

One creative mid that can score goals and another CM that can sit deep, dictate play and is good positionally. Auba is the least of our problems.

 

[Hleb's Sirush]

How about replacing Auba for someone who can dribble his way to the opponent box? So that the striker can actually create chances for himself.

That would be a monumental waste of our transfer budget. We have one of the deadliest forwards in Europe but instead of utilising him correctly we should sell him? I agree we need more technical players but they need to replace the likes of Laca, Xhaka, Mustafi etc. Not Auba. Would you advocate Leicester to sell Vardy so they can get in a player who is more all rounded? After all Vardy hardly gets involved in the build up except the very last phase. I have seen him in games where he got just a half a dozen of touches but ended up with a brace. Even when he came on against us for the last half an hour he only touched the ball about 4 times...yet scored a goal.

When you have elite goalscorers like Vardy or Auba you just get them at the end of moves, not play them on the wings.

Of course you rather have a striker like Van Persie who can do everything but those players aren't easy to find/afford.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

The player we need to replace is Laca. He is the one meant to be more well rounded.

Auba is fine, even though he is limited, he is still one of the top 5 finishers in the world.

That is not something that is easy to replace. We need a better GK than Leno, another CB that can partner Gabriel since Saliba isn't ready.

We also need two midfielders to help Partey out (Xhaka and Ceballos not good enough, El neny is more of a squad option).

One creative mid that can score goals and another CM that can sit deep, dictate play and is good positionally. Auba is the least of our problems.

Don't really need anymore CBs tbh but I do agree we need better midfielders than Xhaka or Ceballos and forwards that can creat for themselves and others.

 

[Big Poppa]

That would be a monumental waste of our transfer budget. We have one of the deadliest forwards in Europe but instead of utilising him correctly we should sell him? I agree we need more technical players but they need to replace the likes of Laca, Xhaka, Mustafi etc. Not Auba. Would you advocate Leicester to sell Vardy so they can get in a player who is more all rounded? After all Vardy hardly gets involved in the build up except the very last phase. I have seen him in games where he got just a half a dozen of touches but ended up with a brace. Even when he came on against us for the last half an hour he only touched the ball about 4 times...yet scored a goal.

When you have elite goalscorers like Vardy or Auba you just get them at the end of moves, not play them on the wings.

Of course you rather have a striker like Van Persie who can do everything but those players aren't easy to find/afford.

This. We've somehow created a problem out of a solution.

 

[Big Poppa]

You must have been watching a different player. Auba has hardly been getting shots in let alone fluffing many chances.

Excluding the penalty against Man Utd he has had a paltry 9 shots in the 7 games we played in the league. That is just slighty above 1 shot a game. How the **** is any forward meant to work with that. Harry kane probably gets presented with that amount in just one game.

You know there is something really not working when Auba has 12 attempted tackles in that period. 12 tackles to nine shots! Unbelievable stat for a forward who lives on his finishing. Not sure how anyone can still try to blame Aubameyang for not producing goals when literally he is putting in more tackles than he gets a sight of goal to attempt a shot.

I have no ****ing idea how anyone can witness what they've been witnessing this season and claim that the problem is Auba's finishing and not our lack of chances created.

 

[Hleb's Sirush]

I have no ****ing idea how anyone can witness what they've been witnessing this season and claim that the problem is Auba's finishing and not our lack of chances created.

As has been pointed out before Aubameyang's xG from open play is 0.5. He is actually overperforming in that regard so anyone blaming his finishing doesn't know what they are talking about.

We do need more forwards who can create for themselves but I do think people don't really appreciate how valuable a pure goalscorer is. They are worth their weight in gold. Auba isn't that great at getting involved with intricate link up play or is particularly good at holding up the ball on his own. You don't need 10 players to be all involved in that though. Leave Auba to concentrate on running behind defences, making runs to near/far post, constantly occupying near the 18 yard penalty area, gobbling up any loose balls in front of the goal. He has shown when you let him do that he will score you a bag full of goals in no time. Get someone else to replace the attempted tackles and clearances in our own half he is currently making, that is easily done. Move people about, change system/tactics if you have to. Because what you can't recreate no matter what you do is score goals at a regular rate without having a natural finisher at the top end.

 

[A_G]

Arteta is squandering this guy ffs, why go through all the trouble to re-sign him

 

[MutableEarth]

Arteta is squandering this guy ffs, why go through all the trouble to re-sign him

His best passages of play all season have come when we played him central.

It's time.

 

[Hleb's Sirush]

Arteta is squandering this guy ffs, why go through all the trouble to re-sign him

The definition of waste: use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

 

[krengon]

Can probably count the amount of touches he had on one hand.. Logically he was always going to come back down to earth after that overperformance to end last season, but this is really ugly..

 

[Breezy]

This guy needs to take a long hard look at himself.

 

[Macho]

He has chalk on his boots and he’s floating in balls from outside the box.

It’s not his fault and I am not a fan of the way he is being used. Arteta is just being stubborn and mismanaging his resources sadly.

 

[Oxeki]

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang failed to take a single shot today, the third time he has done so in a Premier League game this season.

He has scored just 2 goals in 717 league minutes this season.

 

[Oxeki]

This guy needs to take a long hard look at himself.

How so?

It's not his fault that Arteta is using him to float crossed to inferior finishers like Laca and Nketiah

 

[Tir Na Nog]

One of the most prolific CF's around, the whole LW experiment has completely stopped working, it's completely dead. Auba's attributes are far better used centrally. Once again I've not seen Laca do anything at CF that Auba is incapable of doing. He absolutely needs to be played centrally again. This is a situation where Arteta has to just put his ego aside and admit it's not working.

 

[Camus]

I've said before a few weeks ago, but why did we fight tooth and nail in the summer to keep him and make him our highest paid player to just completely misuse him? Seems absolutely insane. Especially when he has a very finite number of years left in him. Surely he's the type of player you build your entire attacking system around, not someone you sacrifice and shoehorn into a square peg to accommodate for other inferior players.

If his obvious strengths simply can't fit into the type of system Arteta wants to play why didn't we just sell him? I honestly think if it wasn't for COVID ****ing up the market we probably would have moved him on given the way we're currently utilising him. With each passing game I'm convinced we kept him purely because no one made a decent offer for him and it was cheaper to just offer him a bumper new contract then to sell him for a lesser fee and sign an replacement.