Predicting Arsenal’s Top 5 Goal Scorers in 2015/16 Season

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Arsenal have quite the strike force employed for the upcoming campaign. Between Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott, Alexis Sanchez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey and shoot, even Mesut Ozil, there are a lot of guys with proven goal-scoring abilities.

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All that being said, Arsenal do not have a true-blooded number one striker like Manchester City’s Kun Aguero. They have a mass of options for who can put the ball in the net.

For that reason, each season there seems to be a new top goal scorer for the club and a new breakout goal scorer as well. Last year it was Alexis Sanchez (cop out, I know), the year before that it was Aaron Ramsey. This year, it figures to be Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Arsenal have a really good chance to win the Premier League title this year and for that dream to come true they are obviously going to have to score a lot of goals. Last year, Arsenal had three guys top ten goals: Alexis Sanchez had 25, Olivier Giroud 19 and Aaron Ramsey weighed in right at 10. This year, they have at the bear minimum three guys who can threaten twenty goals and another handful that can realistically eye 15.

Obviously between injuries and form dips, we are not going to see eight guys score over ten goals, though if any team were to distribute goals that evenly, it would be Arsenal.

Before I start the list, the absentees must be addressed. Santi Cazorla did not make the list because I do not see him topping last season’s mark of eight total goals. He may still be just as prolific, but if he figures to be playing mainly in the deep role, he is going to have a lot of competition going forward to get the ball. I foresee a drop in Cazorla’s goal tallies.

Danny Welbeck is a guy who I would have put on this list if he had had an entire preseason to gel with the team. But he still is not back and therefore I cannot see him topping even 10 goals. In fact, I fully expect to see him score less than last year.