Arteta has made sweeping changes to his team and squad and fans fear it has weakened Arsenal's title ambitions
from the starting line-up in order to accommodate an extra ball player has puzzled fans.
Gabriel started all 38 of Arsenal’s Premier League games last season but has been a substitute in each of the three so far in this one, lobbed on twice to preserve narrow one-goal leads. There is a growing clamour for Gabriel to return alongside William Saliba at centre-back and others to shift into more natural positions. There is a bit of a square peg meets round hole feel to Arsenal’s backline.
Another obvious change has occurred in midfield, where Arteta has replaced a combative box-to-box player with a languid playmaker.and Granit Xhaka are both left-footed and were developed in the Bundesliga but that’s effectively where the comparisons stop. Considering how influential Xhaka was in his final 12 months at Arsenal, it is surprising that the club did not source a more suitable successor for Arteta’s engine room once he left for Bayer Leverkusen. That was presumably deliberate, with the addition of Havertz, like the inverted full-back tactic, designed to give Arsenal greater control.
It is far too premature to write Havertz off, but he hasn’t made an immediate impact in north London. The £65m signing from Chelsea hasn’t scored or provided an assist in his first three games, but more concerning is how peripheral he has been to Arsenal’s attacking play: Havertz has a lower xG than Jakub Kiwior and has completed fewer passes in the final third than Ben White.
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