Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s two goals in our 3-1 win over Burnley yesterday brought his total for the season to 22, meaning he shared the Golden Boot with Liverpool’s Mo Salah and Sadio Mane.
Here’s a lovely compilation of those goals from YouTuber EmanDaGoon.
I bet I can catch his penalties
You can’t even put a nice egg picture up mate! 🙂
Well done Auba.
In other news Danny Drinkwater has been banned for drink driving… the clue is in your name, Danny.
Perhaps he should change it to drink something else
It’s nice to have a top striker again. 2 in fact.
4.30 Ozil at his best
Sometimes I think the real question is what’s wrong with him at the moment
4.30 yes and some said he bottled the shot!! We need him back to his best.
Makes you realise how much we missed Bellerin. He was involved in a lot of them early season goals.
That’s what I thought, also how much Ozil has missed Bellerin.
Yeah me too, I also noticed that Ozil had a hand in build up a lot more, often assisting the assist as it were. What happened!?
It looked like many of the early-season goals were created (not necessarily “assisted”) by Ozil and/or Bellerin. The later goals seemed generally to depend on Aubameyang creating it for himself or from teamwork with Lacazette. The more you watch this, the more you wonder why Ozil did not play more.
And it renews my suspicion that he was frozen out of the team to try to force him to look for a transfer–and that that decision came from the top and was a financial calculation, not a sporting one.
Great to have a golden boot winner at the club again. He’s a real gem and I really hope he leads us to El glory and wins the boot out right next season.
What was apparent from that video, besides Auba’s goalscoring acumen, is how important a good Ozil is to this team. When Ozil is on, his vision unlocks our potential but when he’s off…meh. Unfortunately he’s off way too many matches for a player of his quality and wage packet.
He is instrumental for us behind the front two if we are playing that. His off ball graft has improved but he can still do better bc sometimes he does not make enough runs. And of course he’s the glass half empty type. BUT it will be foolish to get rid of him. Mhkitaryan is the other ‘playmaker type’ on the wane. He isn’t the Rwinger we needed last Jan but with Ramsey gone, he can carry some capacity orchestrating from the middle in lieu of Ozil. His passing can be sharp (as in 3rd goal for Auba against Valencia)… Read more »
I’m looking at Man U Shited……. there is not one defensive player ( apart from Dalot and that’s a maybe cause I don’t really know) that they can rely on. In midfield , it’s bolloxed as well….. Pogba gone, Matic gone ( Mc tominay id keep in the hopes he progresses)…. Herrera gone , mata gone…..up front ….. jeez ….. rashford and Lingard maybe….. the rest , gone. And the manager…… please!!?? We are nowhere near that disarray…… there are big issues for sure….. ageing defense …… Mustafi ……Ozil ….. xhaka , but that’s not massive shit…… and we have… Read more »
But we’re further away from the standard of Liverpool than we are of United so why do you care about them. It shouldn’t give you comfort.
I don’t know signing van dijk boosted their points by about 30
We don’t have to sign a super expensive Cback everyone wants. BUT there are very decent less glamorous and cheaper options we can add to backline. Assuming Sokratis and Holding, we add the new Cback to a back 3 plus keep Mustafi (or Chambers maybe) as back up 4th choice to rotate. Koscielny I think we should let go. He has been an outstanding servant but durability issues will mean less availability. Plus we have another 33 yr old in Monreal to cover at Cback and Lback (for one more season at least till we find solution for alternate to… Read more »
Yeah that’s true. Look at Liverpool’s midfield. Henderson, Milner, Keita, Wijnaldum, Fabinho, Lallana, Ox… hard working but not really that inspiring is it.
Their forwards, their wing backs, Van Dijk and Klopp are what make them.
With that midfield they have done amazingly.
City, overall, have a far better squad. Their midfield is ridiculous.
Van Dijk was a ‘nonchalant’ last time we scouted him
We have bigger issues beyond Ozil, Granit or Mustafi. Lack of quality depth – Jenkinson (Unai doesn’t even play him ahead of Mustafi at Rback…telling). Elneny. You want to get rid of the players you listed? Try getting rid of these two first. Then we are losing Cech, Ramsey, Welbeck, (Thankfully) Lichsteiner. That is added need for reinforcements. Trying to get rid of Ozil, Mustafi, Granit simply adds more holes to plug. Some delusional people of course want to promote half baked players like Mavropanos, Willock to fill gaps with imaginary qualities on unproven record. That would be firmly a… Read more »
We are not United. Not even Liverpool or Spurs.
We won’t spend particularly if not in CL.
We don’t even have a technnical director appointed.
Reality.
Your argument contradicts itself. You say we haven’t got money to spend, yet you don’t want to sell players that would bring in decent money and/or reduce our wage bill to allow us to sign the players we need.
Also, your stance on Koscielny is baffling. He has shown that he can play (even if as a squad player) despite his recent injury and would bring in a paltry transfer fee. Isn’t it better to keep him as long as possible to avoid having to spend more money?
Good question Squibble………
I suppose I’m just saying it will take time, and I’m prepared to support this manager.
To go down the destabilize route of Utd, would be catastrophic.
He’s done decent, could have done better had we squeezed into CL (last 4 league matches before Burnley all missed opportunities) If he brings in the Europa, he’s done well first season. But we need to push upwards quickly. We don’t have the time to spare. The club’s brand is at stake and we have flattered to deceive far too much plus seem to now be slipping away from Spurs. We need serious quality additions at Cback, CM, Rwing. Cback doesn’t have to be expensive just a no nonsense good player. BUT CM and Rwing we need players with exceptional… Read more »
I hear that, we’ve gone onto a new era with the same level of expectation as before and we’ve done well considering.
It’s a rebuilding process so we should close our eyes and get behind him as you say.
The one opportunity I wish he put in against BHA…it would have been an added 2 points and put us at 72 ahead of Spurs firmly in CL. Plus he would have been clear cut Golden Boot winner. Insane to think how close we were. So many opportunities spurned…Palace, Wolves, Leicester and BHA. Had we taken one win plus BHA (draw), we would be on 73 points above Chelsea and in third. Instead we collapsed. Some would contrive to blame Mustafi but aside from the Palace melt down, he was solid in other matches plus did not feature in our… Read more »
I’d forgotten that he scored a penalty against Lloris in the home game. Unfortunately, it seems the spud bastard learned from it.
Interesting how involved Ozil is early on in the season with pre asists and pre pre assists….