Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette the captain of the “Fab Four”

Arsenal’s potent attack has been cleverly dubbed the “Fab Four,” but among the four, there is only one that stands out as the cornerstone.

Arsenal‘s “Fab Four” was supposed to run rings around opposing defenses and score more goals than the scorekeeper could keep track of. While the attack has been carrying the Gunners, beyond a shadow of a doubt, it’s not necessarily the Fab Four that’s been doing it.

Mainly because the Fab Four is struggling to remain a Four. Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been in and out of the XI, suffering injuries and inconsistencies. Mesut Ozil has been as inconsistent as can be and has only recently had his first really good game, and even that was really just a good half.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is always going to be a threat, but he relies largely on service from the other three in the Fab Four, and with Mkhitaryan and Ozil both struggling to produce consistently, it’s fallen to Alexandre Lacazette to help Aubameyang to his best.

Only once this season has Aubameyang really stepped up, which shows that the potential is there, and that he is undoubtedly learning to improve, but there is still progress to be made.

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Which leaves Alexandre Lacazette as the one man who I have confidence in to do his job week in and week out. Now, granted, he was off the mark more than I care to revisit against Watford, but he did provide a crucial assist and has proven, time and again, that even without goals, he knows how to instigate, how to create, and how to assert himself onto a game in a bigger capacity.

Which is more than any other member of the Fab Four has been able to do thus far into their shared tenure as a “unit.”

This is what has driven me to anoint Lacazette as the captain of the Fab Four, because he is the only one who has earned the job. As a unit, they have largely struggled, but Lacazette as an individual, has not.

Even when he wasn’t starting, he was pining to get in there and, when he did, he was crucial to the successes of the club.

Don’t call it a premature end to the Fab Four just yet, but it doesn’t look good. The club is getting younger, and it may be a future without the dream that we once had in this collection of attacking stars. But as long as the club keeps scoring, I don’t care who it’s coming from.