Arsenal: Sead Kolasinac eats guys like David Luiz for breakfast

Arsenal’s toughness has often been a point of contention, but with Sead Kolasinac, we have the toughest guy in the Premier League.

It wasn’t Sead Kolasinac‘s best performance in his short Arsenal career. He was a bit loose at times and his passing wasn’t as pristine as we would like to see. But, to me at least, this will be one of the matches that I look back on when asked when I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Kolasinac has everything the Gunners could ever want.

I had grown so incredibly tired of seeing a physically weak Arsenal side in years past. They were an undersized team composed of good guys with good hearts and there was so little fear involved. The other team could look at them and smile and wave and blow kisses and we’d all be friends.

I’d often think of Patrick Vieira and his spats with Roy Keane. Jack Wilshere and his headbutt of Maraoune Fellaini. All of these moments that showed tremendous passion at the risk of personal involvement. And they were all completely worth it. Invigorating, even.

We were so starved of things like that that you could often find calls of “I’d trade the occasional red card for a bit of fight.”

At first we went for Granit Xhaka and thought he fit the role, but his red cards weren’t red cards of passion, they were red cards of impetuousness and not a calling card of who he was as a player.

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Sead Kolasinac is the completion of these long-term wants and needs. Watching him against Chelsea, even amidst the occasional sloppiness, was inspiring. When he screamed and slapped the Arsenal badge on his chest I got goosebumps and I may have tinkled in my pants a bit.

Then, the best part of all, is when David Luiz decides to go in studs-up and nearly break Kolasinac’s leg. The Bosnian sits up, looks a bit peeved, and gets on with life while the poofy-haired Brazilian is sauntering off the pitch with a fresh red card.

Luiz has nothing on someone like Kolasinac. You can’t hurt him. Your impetuousness is seen and we know it well. But Kolasinac is bigger than that. He is stronger than that, and he will continue to eat people like that for breakfast.

All match he was shoving people off the ball. Sometimes he was called for a foul, but I don’t care. Foul like that all you want until you get a yellow. Play mean. That’s what we want. I am speaking for all Gooners because I know this to be true. We want mean. We want someone the other team fears.

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I can guarantee you that there were some Chelsea players out there that didn’t want to get too close to the Bosnian.

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