Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette offering free psychotherapy sessions

Arsenal’s record signing Alexandre Lacazette is taking nicely to the Premier League, and the free psychotherapy sessions he offers are a nice bonus.

Arsenal’s biggest problem ever since they sold Robin van Persie, was that they would not bring in the right striker to challenge Olivier Giroud. Arsene Wenger tried so many slight of hand tricks in an attempt to uncover a potential solution, but nothing ever panned out. And, in the end, we had to break the bank on a striker long past due.

I don’t know about you, but when Alexandre Lacazette was gearing up for that shot after receiving the lay-off from Danny Welbeck, I just assumed he’d sky it or squib it wide. I’ve seen so many Gunners square up that kind of opportunity and absolutely flub it.

But Lacazette has had two such goals now (this one against Bournemouth, and the disallowed one against Stoke) that showed his cool finishing. The type of cool finishing that can be relied upon.

Why? Because this is who Lacazette is. There are a lot of skills that do take acclimating when you switch from one league to another, but the ability to shoot, unabated, and conclusively drive a ball home – that requires no acclimation. That is a universal skill that Lacazette has.

And that is a skill that Arsenal supporters have been crying out for for years. Someone who can just put the ball away.

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I don’t think I’m alone in saying that it will certainly take time for me to have confidence in any Arsenal player taking those kinds of shots and making them look so easy. But that’s why I’m referring to goals such as this as Lacazette’s free psychotherapy sessions.

If he does this enough, which he will, because he is that good, then slowly but surely we can start to not cringe when those shots are taken and rather wait with anticipation as they bulge the back of the net.

We’ve had a rough decade, and you’d have to say that Arsenal supporters are perhaps the most cynical supporters out there. But we have reason to be. This club can be right maddening at times. The emotional roller coaster they put you on makes you distrust most things.

Seeing that goal flutter into the back of the net was the first shot in a long battle to defeat that cynicism and restore a bit of faith in the club.

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Now all we need is for Wenger to keep starting the guy so we can keep having these free sessions and we’ll be the hap-hap-happiest supporters this side of the nut house.

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