Arsenal: Danny Welbeck return asks the same old questions

Arsenal will be welcoming back Danny Welbeck soon and despite the trifecta up front, the questions we asked before have to be asked again.

Arsenal’s attacking trifecta that everyone has been waiting forever to see is living up to expectations. Alexandre Lacazette, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez, the three superstars and three of the most expensive signings in club history, look like they were born to play the game together.

You may say that nothing should get in the way of this trio of attacking brilliance, even in spite of Alexis’s ongoing goal drought that ha many questioning, well, a lot of things.

Which would mean that Danny Welbeck‘s pending return isn’t anything to think about. He can’t really challenge any of those three can he? After all, who would you actually swap him for? Lacazette is set in stone, Ozil is finally clicking and Alexis is getting wound so tight you’d hate to miss out on when he unleashes the hurt.

But you can’t simply write off what Welbeck has done. Here we are about to jump on into November and Danny Welbeck has only just now been caught by Aaron Ramsey in the goal tally. He had been securely in second place despite his prolonged absence.

When he was in the midst of that streak, he was clicking like no other. It was a beautiful thing. A Welbeck in form is something magnificent. He just makes everything look so easy.

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And that’s why the question has to be asked – do you slot him right back into the starting XI, and if so, for who? Last time, he returned from injury, he was sent right in. The problem was that he then got hurt immediately and now we’re back where we are now.

It’s a tough question to ask, or rather a tough one to answer, but despite how good Welbeck was, I don’t think it’s sensible to slot him right back into the starting XI. For a couple of reasons. Firstly, the injury risk. Use the Jack Wilshere tactics and ween him back in.

Secondly, you just can’t break up that trio of brilliance up front. Not when they are right on the cusp of truly accentuating just how good they are altogether.

And lastly, that rotational squad could use a serious burst of everything that Welbeck has. So it’s a win-win. You save him for super-sub duties, you beef up the rotational squad and you lose nothing in the first team.

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So I guess, technically that’s a win-win-win. Which is even better.

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