TEE SONG: January 8, 2012 at 7:39 pm

Regarding Arsenal’s perceived difficulties in scoring I think you’ve hit the nail on the head when you state “the three striker system is placed so Arsenal can be more dynamic and goalscoring coming from more than one source although that is not the case yet.” This team is overly reliant on RvP’s goals and that’s down to three players poor goal scoring form at the moment–Theo, Aaron and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Arshavin. Fans seems to perceive Gervinho as being profligate in front of goal but, in the BPL, he has 4 goals in 33 shots for a 12% conversion percentage. After RvP’s 94 shots, Theo is next on the team with 45 shots followed by Ramsey with 36 and they have, respectively, two and one goal to show for their efforts. If they converted the same percentage of their shots as the supposedly profligate Gervinho, they would have an additional SEVEN goals between them. I’m not saying that Gervinho shouldn’t do better but I don’t understand why fans are criticizing him when Theo and Aaron have both been much more inefficient in front of goal. Add to that Arshavin’s woeful goal scoring form with a single goal from 24 shots and one can see why we’re so reliant on Robin. If those three converted at Gervinho’s rate we’d have nine more goals overall. If they converted at the BPL overall average conversion rate of 13%, we’d have ten more goals and if they converted at the same rate as our fellow top 6 competitors, 15%, we’d have twelve more.