The month of February was bloody incredible for Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal, who shrugged off issues over their goalscoring means by discovering the again of the web a whopping 18 occasions.
All of these targets got here within the Premier League, main the Gunners to a most 12-point return, although they did draw a clean away at Porto within the Champions League after a fairly weird change of strategy.
They have been so dangerous in Portugal that they didn’t register a shot in goal – a statistic all of the extra bewildering contemplating they did nothing however assault towards Liverpool, West Ham United, Burnley and Newcastle United.
Arsenal are entrance and centre of the Premier League title race because of this, and had numerous standout performers in February who helped take them to the subsequent stage.
Honourable mentions
It was a very respectable month for Leandro Trossard and Jorginho, who outdoors of nameless showings towards Porto, confirmed simply how precious they’re to Arsenal.
The latter even scooped 90min’s participant of the match awards towards Liverpool and Newcastle, along with his common ranking for the month solely introduced down by a brief cameo away at Burnley.
Appearances: 5
Common ranking: 7.2 (6,9,9,5,7)
Participant of the Match: 0
Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard hasn’t hit the goalscoring heights of final season (15 Premier League targets with no penalties) however he put in a few excellent shows in February.
Particularly, the Norwegian was at his good greatest as Arsenal dismantled West Ham at London Stadium, earlier than repeating the trick six days later as Burnley have been terrorised at Turf Moor.
Appearances: 5
Common ranking: 7.2 (7,9,8,5,9)
Participant of the Match: 0
William Saliba has been labelled the ‘Rolls-Royce’ of Arsenal’s defence, however it’s associate Gabriel who actually stood out in February.
Minus an ineffectual show towards Porto – the place each Gunners participant bar one struggled – the Brazilian was very good, significantly impressing towards West Ham and Newcastle.
Appearances: 5
Common ranking: 7.4 (7,7,8,6,9)
Participant of the Match: 0
The longstanding criticism of Kai Havertz is that he would not rating sufficient targets and would not provide Arsenal sufficient in midfield.
Importantly, the German has the backing of Arteta, and judging by his February shows he is prone to have a vital function to play between now and the top of the season.
Havertz scored twice in February, towards Burnley and Newcastle, and was additionally very efficient towards Liverpool.
Appearances: 5
Common ranking: 7.8 (7, 9, 9, 5, 9)
Participant of the Match: 1
It is true Kurt Angle is the one Olympic gold medalist (with a damaged freakin’ neck, anyway) in WWE historical past and it is true Bukayo Saka is within the type of his life proper now.
The 22-year-old has scored seven targets in his 5 Premier League video games, and he turned in three 9/10 performances in a superb February. In every other month, Saka would positively have been Arsenal’s standout performer, however on this event…
Appearances: 5
Common ranking: 8.4 (8,10,8,7,9)
Participant of the Match: 2
…he is been outshone by the sensational Declan Rice.
Signed for £105m, a report payment for a British participant, Rice had loads to show on the Emirates Stadium (with many saying he wasn’t as much as it as a result of he hadn’t performed Champions League soccer), but he is in some way now trying like a little bit of a cut price.
Rice was colossal in all 5 of Arsenal’s video games in February – he was the one participant to stamp any form of authority on Porto – and deservedly picked up two of 90min’s participant of the match awards.
His actual standout show was at West Ham, the place he scored a stupendous long-range aim to rub extreme quantities of salt into some very open East Finish wounds.
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