The reason there is a «star striker» in most
PL winning teams is more to do with the law of averages than anything else.
More than half
the PL winning teams have not had the leagues top scorer in their ranks.
Most
PL winning teams have top dm or box2box who are excellent defensively: Kante, Kompany, Toure, Matic, Roy Keane, Scholes, Viera
PL winning teams show usrgency and fight 9 out of 10 games.
He won trophies with guys like Henry, Bergkamp, Ian Wright All
the PL winning teams had very good to great strikers ie Vardy, Costa, Aguero, RVP, Rooney, Ronaldo, Drogba, Tevez, Van Nistleroy, Henry, Bergkamp, Ian Wright All these strikers have scored over 20 goals in a season Very rarely do PL Champions have a striker who scores less than 20 goals and mostly score in the mid 20's Wenger doesn't understand this and wants to believe its not necessary or He probably believes Giroud is WC Top teams usually have a backup of Giroud's quality Look at Spurs.
Cech is our best GK, one of the best in the league, a top GK is always crucial to
a PL winning team.
Kroenke made his choice then, not to build the complete
PL winning team.
There may be some truth in this but it is also obvious to people that the man has been unable to procure, train and forge
a PL winning team for 12 years nor a UCL winning one in all of his career.
Others have done more with less in other teams, and 13 years of buying players and forming his teams has shown he can not create
a PL winning team.
Not exact matches
With a
team which
won the
PL last year (OK, without Kante this year), Ranieri managed to get 9 defeats by end december.
The
PL top scorer has only been in the title
winning team in 8 of the 23 seasons.
We don't need any more players to
win the
PL or FA Cup (this season) We need our current injured to come back We also need Theo, Ox and Joel to score more goals All our
team to hold on to their best quality and work rate and belief fo just 3 more months
Before
winning the
PL or the CL the first and foremost thing is to take pride in wearing the Arsenal shirt and show the courage and strength befitting of a club like Arsenal and in all those respects our
team has failed us miserably
In order to
win PL / CL we need to perform on big days against tough
teams and against those tough
teams we get very few chances to score and giroud does not have those killer instincts to score on the slightest of hint of chance.
It is silly to think about
winning the
PL if you can't beat Watford or mid table
teams in must
win situations.
In 14 of the 23
Pl seasons the title
winning team's top scorer had 20 or less goals.
When opportunity to
win PL comes along,
team can not show the grit and determination to do what is necessary.
Giroud is not the out and out striker that will
win us the
PL, but the
team iznt able to play to his strengths.
Although our
PL game at the Emirates on Sunday against Burnley should be our focus for now before we start to think of our fourth round FA Cup match against either the Saints
team or the Lions
team.When the time to play the Cup game comes, I am sure Arsenal will squarely deal with it to
win the game.
Our problem is rotation doesn't actually help a
team — Chelsea have used the fewest players in the
PL and
won thanks to that.
I think we are stuck with him, because to any
team outside the top four and indeed most
PL managers we are seen as successful, but
winning the league is the pinnacle, and we seem content with less than that, which is sad.
I would be delighted with the
PL title but it will be very difficult, there appear to be about six
teams who could
win it this year.
Lets hope the
team now gors on this exceptional run of form and
wins the
PL.
is it bad that im really jealous of chelsea exciting
team, exciting manager in his first season league title chance at double about to break
pl record for most
wins in one season
Obviously its not a «disaster» However, you need an excellent home record to
win the
PL and to not beat a mid table
team (as well as Middlesborough played - and i take my hat off to them) is not good at all.
Spurs are impressive & look a better
team than us but they won't
win the
PL & UCL any time soon..
What would help would be
winning the
PL and beating some of the top
teams in europe over two legs.
Being in Europe is only worth it if Arsenal are good enough to
win the
PL otherwise no
team will ever fear us.
BUT no signing means ultimately Wenger is happy with the
team as is and believes it can
win the
PL.
SAF
won his
PL with a mediocre
team.
Signing for a
team that had
won 4 out of the 5 previous
PL titles ain't the hard way — bit like Nasri et al jumping on the City bandwagon.
that a
team can
win PL with total football, and do nt need that 1 special striker.
Fans can change an atmosphere but there is little they can do to effect a
win if that was the case the home
team would always
win and we would have
won the
PL in the past 13 years when we had happy fans for the majority of the time.
Mate, the way you go on I can't imagine you enjoying ANY game at the Emirates until Wenger goes, this
team is dismantled and the new manager consults you on every decision thus enabling us to
win the
PL every season by 20 points for the next 30 years.
Wenger hasn't been able to build a
team of Spurs quality let alone A
PL winning side in the past 14 years.
you claim to be proclaiming the «bitter truth» but the fact is that last season they only lost one single match at home and it was against Chelsea (you know, the
team that has already
won the
PL in your eyes);
I don't know how old you are Arsenal Girl but the
PL was
won by
teams without a «20 + goal scorer» in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 (yeah!)
To form a
team capable of
winning the
PL and CL.
Just something to think about and to kick around... Arsenal would be a great club if AW was replaced, the Directors left The
team was totally replaced... because they're all AW's players and thus mediocre We could find another T. Henry, Vieira, Pires and co We could use all the money to buy the best players in the world Just these small changes would GUARANTEE a continuous stream of
PL and EC
wins Shame our club would still be stuck with its c..
Last time a
team other than arsenal, chelsea, manc or manu
won the
PL was back in 1994/5 when blackburn rovers
won it.
For every Shearer tale (Blackburn 95), Henry (2004), RvP 2012 there are 2 or 3 different examples of how to
win the
PL and what the
team scoring profile looks like.
If you want to
win the
PL title now is the time to get results against better
teams, we failed to do that against Spurs, Man U and PSG, all games where we could argued to have been out played.
Does he think that the current
team is good enough to
win both the
PL and CL?
But 6 to 7 years ago, all young players were getting many first
team opportunity in the form of substitution, CL matches were we already topped the group with couple of group matches to be played,
PL matches where we already
won like 4 - 0 score with 30 minutes to go against lesser
team, Carling cups etc..
Of course they are If Costa and Fabregas get back to their best and Conte can get the whole
team to gel and they sign top players they can compete for the title Leicester
won the Title in their first
PL season
Chelsea, the greatest
team seen this century (apparently if you listen to the media) have only
won half their away games in
PL.
Add vin Dijk and either Barkley or Mahrez (whilst keeping Ox, Alexis and Özil) and we have a
team that can
win the
PL.
Hmmmmmm, a strong case can be made that a
team needs things to go their way (call it luck if you want) to
win one
PL title.
That is their first tram and they are playing Sunderland (they are struggling at the moment) and their next
PL game is away to Tottneham.I think some
teams wants to
win it all.
The
PL has been
won 5 times out of 23 with a player in the
winning team scoring 25 + league goals.