They’ve not peaked as individuals. The manager becoming more defensive is costing them along with the lack of an out and out goal scorer.
Agree. Let me try to elaborate on my point.
I've said this for 2 years : Arsenal have had the incredible chance of having such young players blossoming at the same time: Martinelli, Saka and Oodegaard (& ESR too at some point) are still very young and were even more so two years ago and they really challenged City, this is really exceptional. I had never seen this.
From this very good base, they need to improve, as a team. Yes, individually, they can all improve, but again, how much can they improve more as a team and what about the "strikers"? Now for them it's about finding the small improvements that this side need to improve. They consolidated the defence, but it was not their weakness. Their midfield is good with Rice and Oodergaard very reliable players.
It reminds me of our team after winning the title. What did we do? We did not buy players during the transfer window and collapsed, while most of the team was there. So, for me, we peaked when we won the league and then dropped because we did not find ways to improve an already great team.
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