Arsenal flop is now outscoring Trossard after leaving on a free transfer

We think about most Arsenal followers simply need this season to finish now.

The North Londoners got here into the marketing campaign hoping to lastly elevate the Premier League trophy, go additional within the Champions League, and perhaps even decide up a home cup or two.

Nonetheless, with one setback after one other, it is more and more possible that the membership will finish the season with none silverware, particularly following the information that Kai Havertz will be out until next season with a hamstring downside.

The German’s harm and the prolonged checklist of absences imply there’s a excellent likelihood that Mikel Arteta should begin Leandro Trossard up entrance for the remainder of the marketing campaign, and whereas he is proven actual high quality lately, he isn’t been on the races this season.

Actually, an Arsène Wenger signing who was let go for nothing years in the past is presently outscoring the Belgian and would most likely be a welcome addition to the Gunners’ wafer-thin assault.

Arsenal’s assault this season

It has been an odd season for Arsenal’s assault, as whereas there’s an simple sense among the many followers that they have not been scientific or harmful sufficient in a mess of video games, they’re nonetheless the second-top scorers in the Premier League with 49, though that’s seven fewer than title rivals Liverpool, who’re taking part in Everton tonight.

Sadly, it appears to be like nearly assured that the North Londoners will fall additional behind the Reds on this metric following Havertz’s harm, as he was the workforce’s prime scorer with 15 goals and five assists in 34 video games.

Simply behind him is the additionally injured Saka, who managed to rack up a sensational haul of nine goals and 13 assists in 24 video games, whereas Gabriel Martinelli is the joint-third prime goalscorer with seven strikes and four assists to his title and can be out injured.

Stage with the Brazilian winger is Hale End star Ethan Nwaneri, after which rounding out the highest 5 is Gabriel Jesus, who is also on seven goals and, as soon as once more, out for the season.

Solely after these 5 gamers do you attain Trossard, who, alongside Gabriel Magalhaes, has scored 5 objectives this season, though he has also provided six assists in his 36 appearances to date.

In brief, Arsenal will want the previous Brighton & Hove Albion star to be at his finest for the remainder of the marketing campaign, however that appears unlikely when he is being outscored by a participant who left without spending a dime six years in the past.

The previous Arsenal star outscoring Trossard

So, there are a number of former Arsenal gamers having fun with profitable campaigns this season, from Emile Smith Rowe and Alex Iwobi at Fulham to Alexandre Lacazette and Ainsley Maitland-Niles at Lyon.

Nonetheless, on this occasion, it is Brighton & Hove Albion star Danny Welbeck who’s continued his profession resurgence on the south coast this season.

The previous England worldwide joined the Gunners for around £16m in September 2014, and whereas he actually wasn’t unhealthy, he by no means actually shone both, and that, mixed with pretty persistent accidents, meant he by no means actually established himself as a necessary member of the primary workforce.

After 5 years, through which he scored 32 goals and provided 13 assists in 126 appearances, the previous Manchester United gem left the club below Unai Emery and proceeded to hitch Watford on a free at the start of the 19/20 season.

Nonetheless, following an underwhelming marketing campaign through which he scored simply three goals in 20 games, his deal was terminated by mutual consent in October 2020.

Simply a few weeks later, the then-29-year-old joined the Seagulls on a one-year deal and has not appeared again since, racking up a tally of 32 goals and ten assists in 147 video games, and, as former teammate Adam Lallana said, taking part in at “a distinct stage”.

This season has seen him discover the again of the net six times in 22 games and supply two assists for good measure, so whereas he isn’t fairly as inventive as Trossard, he is been extra deadly in entrance of objective.

Finally, Arsenal will probably be hopeful that the Belgian can rediscover his goalscoring kind from final season for the closing months of the marketing campaign, however we think about Arteta would like to have Welbeck in his squad proper now.

Associated

He walked away for £0: Arsenal icon is outperforming Havertz after leaving

The free-scoring ex-Arsenal star is tearing it up for his new membership.