Arsenal: Sead Kolasinac rocking out as needed resident villain

Arsenal continue to lose, but if we’re looking at the positives, we may have found a fun little micro-role for Sead Kolasinac as the in-house villain.

Arsenal lost again and it’s not even shocking anymore. Rather than dwell on that, I’m going to yet again be picking out the positives of the match, which makes where I’m starting a rather curious thing. Because I’m starting with Sead Kolasinac.

The Bosnian wrecker wasn’t great in the match, yet again. He struggled to get into the flow of the game, but I will say that he was better. Stepping in for an injured Nacho Monreal, with confidence being an issue, I always assumed that Kolasinac would need some time getting back into the flow of things.

I don’t want this to sound horrible, but matches like he had today only help. It gets the adrenaline flowing, you remember how tough you are, and all of a sudden, you’re back on top, wrecking the league, rather than just wrecking opposing players.

In no way am I downplaying the concern surrounding Kolasinac’s tackle. I’m just as happy as the next person that Schelotto is okay. But if I can step away from that specific instance for a moment, I would just like to say that I love that the Gunners are developing their own in-house villain.

When Granit Xhaka first came over, he seemed like he may be the one to fill that role, but that quickly evaporated when everyone realized that while he may be strong, he isn’t wrecking-ball strong, and that is what we were looking for.

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Kolasinac is mean, he is aggressive, he is fearless and he literally doesn’t care about any of that. It’s a dangerous proposition because of the potential disciplinary repercussions, but let me say this more clearly – give me all the disciplinary repercussions in the book, I am just so damn happy that we have a player that I would consider “mean.”

How many times over the past decade have we said that the Gunners are soft, small, weak, etc.? Honestly, I’ve said it myself probably over a hundred times. Kolasinac may be one guy, but he fixes that. He is our resident villain, the kind of guy that can actually put fear in opposing players solely because they know how reckless he can be.

I love it. This is exactly what we were crying for for so many years. And, just to clarify, it’s not like he is needlessly reckless. He doesn’t throw down with opposing players 40 yards from the action. He attacks the ball and anyone in the near vicinity.

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Which, again, is what we always wanted. Now we have it. So let’s be happy about that small little thing that in no way changes the recent results.

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