The Arsenal winger is on track for a record-breaking campaign
According to Tim Lewis, Arsenal’s executive vice-chair, Wenger replied dryly: “I think you could use your right foot a bit more.”
A couple of hundred, Salako demonstrated – but all with his left foot. Coppell, who self-effacingly regarded himself as a one-dimensional winger in his own playing days, insisted Salako should be able to use both, and offered him £10 if he could come back and do a hundred alternating between his two feet.“Challenge accepted!” Salako says. “I came back a week later and did the 100, took his tenner and that’s how it started.
Those defenders, probably, are damned if they do or don’t. Their instinct is to deal with the winger at the byline or en route, but the challenge of Saka creates doubt.“You’ve got to try to show them down the line,” one Premier League full-back explains, asking to remain anonymous. Whichever way he gets in though, Saka is a more regular attacker on goal overall this season. He has averaged 3.7 shots per 90 minutes in the league this season, a full shot a game higher his career average of 2.7 and still higher than last year’s 3.3.
“Usually, when you’re in that position, you’d almost sort of be standing that up as a header at the far post, or you would see a run and reverse it in behind the defence for someone to run in.”Those crosses now have a bigger target too: last year’s regular striker Gabriel Jesus, 5ft 9in, has only started one Premier League games up front for Arsenal this season.
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