Arsenal vs Huddersfield: Beware Alexandre Lacazette

Arsenal haven’t started Alexandre Lacazette in three straight matches, but that just means that he is set to pop against Huddersfield town.

Alexandre Lacazette was less than pleased when the Premier League ruled that his goal to put Arsenal up (for a matter of seconds) against Manchester United, was in fact an own goal for Marcos Rojo.

This coming after he had found himself excluded from the starting rotation for the second match in a row – third if you count the precautionary lack of inclusion against Bournemouth. And things were going so well for him.

Thankfully, if you believe in happenstance, Lacazette could not be in a better place as we head into this match with Huddersfield, particularly with his return to the goal sheet being overturned following United.

Arsenal haven’t sat Lacazette for three straight matches since the first three matches of the season. And after those three matches, his next five starts accumulated four goals and two assists, making it clear and indisputable that he should be starting in every single match, no questions asked.

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Before even hearing about the goal being overturned and the reaction from Lacazette and his teammates, I was pretty adamant that Lacazette would start against Huddersfield, without a doubt, and to accompany that, he would be pretty damn set on proving that he should never be sat again.

Now factor in the lack of his goal against United and he is going to he starved for a goal or three to get back on the right path, particularly with Aubameyang rocking out with ten goals to lead all of the Premier League.

Lacazette is always such a useful player that we tend to forget that his goals often come in bursts. I think back to his time at Lyon, namely the year after his breakout year. He got off to an incredibly slow start, but one goal flipped the switch, and just like that, he finished the season with over twenty goals, like business as usual.

This is a match, in front of roaring home fans, that has Lacazette written all over it. Nobody is going to want to thump home goals more than him and, conveniently, no one is more capable than him.

This has become Lacazette’s M.O. He’s a rare striker that doesn’t need to score to be effective, but you just know when he is overdue to score and when that happens, he manages to put together a pretty silky streak.