Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette “drought” opens other “spout”

Alexandre Lacazette hasn’t scored a goal for Arsenal in four matches, but it’s rash to call this a drought, when another spout has opened.

Arsenal‘s dual-forwards are clearly the best possible attacking option on this club, seeing as how they are arguably the two best players, the two most useful in the attack, and they play off of each other so perfectly, making them a self-sustaining engine at times.

It is improving two, this method of starting Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang together, side by side, not as a winger-striker combo that in no way accentuates their best features as individuals.

However, despite this budding partnership as dual-strikers, Lacazette has not scored in four matches, and has yet to play the full 90 (or even start the majority of) those four matches. It might be something of a drought in that regard, but what is happening with Lacazette is anything but a drought.

It’s just opening up another spout. Because in those four games, he has notched three assists, two of which have gone to Aubameyang, which puts Lacazette just one assist behind the team leader Aaron Ramsey.

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We talk quite often about how Lacazette is so much more valuable than the goals he scores. Nevermind that he is second on the team in goals scored with six. He does so much beside that, linking up play, dribbling in tight space, and being an otherwise brilliant attacker.

His creativity with the pass has always been an understated strength of his that we haven’t been able to see as much of because he’s usually the sole striker. But paired with Aubameyang, Lacazette’s ability to handle the ball so close to the net with such precision and control, thus pulling the defense in, allows Aubameyang to find space and give Lacazette and easy outlet for assists.

Like we saw against Brighton.

Lacazette isn’t in a drought, he is just finding his fortune at the moment with a different spout, that of the assist, rather than the goal. I wonder how Lacazette feels about all this, but something tells me the only thing he feels particularly strong about is the fact that he can’t stay on the pitch for more than an hour at a time.

Anyway, it’s nice to see his hard work paying dividends in hard-core numbers. Even if they aren’t in the category he’s used to them always showing up in.