Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette has easy leg up on Alvaro Morata

Arsenal and Chelsea both have new strikers this year and people are fawning over Morata and turning their nose up to Alexandre Lacazette. Wrong!

I hate when things are predictable, and with the media, things are far too often predictable. Take Arsenal and Chelsea’s newest signings, for instance. Here you have two high quality strikers who were made to play in the Premier League. They each have a different skill set and it remains to be seen who will be the more effective in the long run.

But then you have people like Paul Merson weighing in that Lacazette is a level below Morata. Which is utter bullocks and you can’t possibly back that up with anything substantial. Merson says that he can see it when Alvaro Morata plays, and that’s fair, he’s quite talented, but Morata does not have the proven record to ascend to a “new level.”

Here’s why: Morata has spent his entire young career playing second fiddle at super clubs Real Madrid and Juventus. The most goals he has ever scored in a season is 15 and besides that one year in the Spanish capital, he has never scored more than eight.

Meanwhile, Alexandre Lacazette has scored between 15-30 goals in each of the last four years. And sure, Ligue 1 isn’t as difficult, but he hasn’t done it on PSG or Monaco, the superpowers, he’s done it with Lyon.

If you’re meaning to tell me that Merson is making this blunt assumption based on Morata scoring three goals thus far and Lacazette scoring two, then yet again we have a blind estimation with absolutely no backing.

I didn’t want to start throwing stones at either striker, as they are both exciting, but I feel like I have to now. If we want to start pre-judging these two strikers before there bums can even pancake out in their respective Premier League thrones, then consider this: Morata’s three goals have all come from his head, as is his strength.

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Meaning he has had to have strong services for all three goals. He is not a do-it-yourself striker.

Lacazette is. He is the Aguero type that everyone has always said the Gunners need, since having Olivier Giroud, a Morata type, wasn’t enough.

Lacazette has scored one goal with his head, one with his foot and another, the offside goal, with another foot.

Arsenal has lived the Morata life, they’ve had that kind of striker before and now they’re mixing it up because that kind of striker wasn’t enough. Plain and simple.

And that is the leg up that Lacazette has over Morata. Morata is reliant on other players to help him get goals. Lacazette isn’t. If you want to tell me that Morata is on another level than Lacazette, the only way I won’t take issue is if you’re talking about how much taller the Spaniard is. Because there is no level that Morata has solidified himself at that Lacazette hasn’t.

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Makes me crazy. What has Morata done to establish this other level? Sure, the lad is talented, but that is a big claim with very little supporting evidence.

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