Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette buries the acclimation process

Arsenal turned to Alexandre Lacazette to lead the line yet again and he buried the entire acclimation process into the back of the net.

Arsene Wenger has his strategies and fancies and there is nothing we can do to change them. His belief that any new signing Arsenal acquires has to go through an “acclimation” process is tedious at times, but again, it’s something we have to bear with.

Sure they do, but it shouldn’t effect their usage.

Alexandre Lacazette has been having to fend off the dreaded “acclimation process” in order to stay on the pitch for more than an hour. He was somewhat conspicuously taken off against Chelsea when he was the only forward on the pitch.

Against West Brom, however, Lacazette gave Wenger no choice to take him off. Although, Le Prof still managed to do it in the 81st minute.

Lacazette was just too good to take off. In a match like this, where everything is back and forth, there is one stat that I look to to really tell the tale of who was on top of their game – dispossession.

Arsenal were dispossessed 13 times as a team, which is a number they will ideally want to cut down on. But Lacazette, the forward most player with the least amount of space, was only dispossessed once.

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Meanwhile, he completed four dribbles, tied with Alexis Sanchez for most on the pitch, and he scored a coolly taken brace that showed composure, anticipation and, yet again, that heading ability that he supposedly doesn’t have, according to some.

He won two aerial duels, more than Craig Dawson and Jonny Evans combined. Again, something he wasn’t supposed to be able to do.

Lacazette was simply fantastic on the day, and it’s a shame he couldn’t pull a hat trick out of it, because undoubtedly all the talking heads out there will be too focused on Alvaro Morata’s hat trick to notice that Lacazette proved to be completely integrated into the Premier League against a gritty side and he did everything that was expected of him and then some.

Essentially, he proved that the acclimation process was a thing of the past and an expiring idea. There’s no need to shelter a guy from the league he is going to have to face at some point.

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Lacazette faced the league and he gripped it by the shoulders and headbutted it. There was no mistaking the quality of the French striker here. He was top class.

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