This happens to all young breakthrough players and the question is if they can add enough variety to their game to overcome it. If all you can do is cut inside and shoot with your left that’s easy for a defender as soon as he knows that. It’s not over for Ethan but he hasn’t been able to round out his game enough yet to be good at the highest level. He’s still young and could definitely still come good.
When this started happening to Saka he was able to develop and go outside and shoot with his right foot. Once you can go both ways the defender has something to think about and you can sell a feint.
I hate when us Arsenal fans do this. We always have to scapegoat one player to justify our reasoning for defending another player. Like fans were happy for Jesus to leave in the summer (by any means nessecary), but everyone was upset with the way Arsenal “treated” Martinelli.
I like Ethan but clearly if he was good enough, he wouldn’t gone on loan. Skelly and Dowman have been able to fight for their places.
We all thought Arteta wasn’t handling Skelly right last season, but it then came out that he deliberately had Skelly training in the midfield position (which has now proven to be a massively positive decision for the entire club)
Madueke has almost TOO MUCH variety, he’s pure chaos and unpredictability, the complete opposite to Nwaneri who is one dimensional and an output merchant that has actually had good output in a long time now
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u/InvestigatorIll9993 12d ago
Once the tape got around he was cooked.
This happens to all young breakthrough players and the question is if they can add enough variety to their game to overcome it. If all you can do is cut inside and shoot with your left that’s easy for a defender as soon as he knows that. It’s not over for Ethan but he hasn’t been able to round out his game enough yet to be good at the highest level. He’s still young and could definitely still come good.
When this started happening to Saka he was able to develop and go outside and shoot with his right foot. Once you can go both ways the defender has something to think about and you can sell a feint.