Arsenal have been struggling for objectives in current weeks, failing to search out the web in three of their final seven video games in all competitions.
“The dearth of objectives is a priority since you want objectives to win video games and be constant,” Gunners boss Mikel Arteta admitted forward of his aspect’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea earlier this month.
“That’s the one factor that individuals are going to guage. You possibly can overrun the opponent, you possibly can outperform the opponent in each single approach. [But] it’s about whether or not you scored a objective,” he defined. “That’s the issue. The issue must be resolved by scoring extra objectives than the opponents.”
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Arsenal can not seem to discover the again of the web in the mean time.
To unravel that challenge, Arteta and the powers that be, specifically stand-in sporting director Jason Ayto, are understood to be monitoring plenty of strikers forward of the January switch window.
The 39 year-old has stepped into the sneakers of Edu Gaspar, who’s on gardening depart forward of what’s a comparatively shocking transfer to Nottingham Forest, and the likes of Paris Saint-Germain star Randal Kolo Muani and Sporting Lisbon’s Viktor Gyokeres have been linked as attainable new quantity nines.
Vlahovic wished after New Yr
Based on Caught Offside’s Day by day Briefing, Juventus forward Dusan Vlahovic is another of those that Arsenal are at the moment maintaining tabs on. The publication experiences that the Gunners are weighing up a January transfer for the Serbia worldwide, and Ayto and Co are anticipated to method to start contacts within the coming days.
Vlahovic’s contract with Juve expires in the summertime of 2026, and whereas the Italian membership are stated to be making an attempt to tie him all the way down to a brand new deal, they’re struggling to make progress. Manchester United flop Joshua Zirkzee was named by The Day by day Briefing because the participant Juventus would look to signal to switch Vlahovic ought to he depart for The Emirates.
Dusan Vlahovic’s profession to date
Vlahovic, 24, started his profession in his house nation with FZ Partizan, however made his title in Italy with Fiorentina, scoring 49 objectives in 108 video games for the Purples. Since transferring to Juventus in the summertime of 2022, he is stored that good type going, netting 50 objectives in 117 video games.
9 of these objectives have are available in simply 16 video games this season as Juventus have loved an unbeaten begin to their Serie A marketing campaign.
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Dusan Vlahovic 2024/25 Serie A statistics |
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Video games |
12 |
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Objectives |
6 |
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Anticipated objectives |
8.1 |
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Aerial duels received per 90 |
1.39 |
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Pictures per 90 |
3.70 |
Regardless of being a key participant for Juventus, nonetheless, current feedback from the striker, once described as “lethal” by BBC Sport’s Phil Dawkes, recommend he is not totally completely satisfied in Turin.
Talking to RSI after Serbia’s 1-1 draw with Switzerland earlier this month, Vlahovic defined how he prefers playing for his country than his membership.
“It’s a bit simpler for me when there’s one other striker, as a result of [Alexander] Mitrovic holds up the ball and engages in aerial duels, so I could make extra of my very own traits and qualities,” he stated.
“The coach additionally doesn’t require many defensive duties from me, in order that makes it simpler too. With my physicality, I can’t actually run that a lot and am not as recent in my ending after I’ve been working so arduous.”
