Arsenal vs Chelsea: Well don’t stop now, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Arsenal will be hoping to get up early against Chelsea, and few guys will have a bigger say in that than Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who can just carry on where he left off.

Arsenal have their first Golden Boot winner since 2011-12, and it’s damn exciting. Yet, we always knew he’d be in the running since the moment he arrived at the club. So seeing it all come to fruition is just one of those rare times when everything went according to plan.

That said, there have been times this year where I have been massively frustrated with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. His ability to score fantastic goals while also making seemingly easy efforts look immensely difficult is often astounding. He could have had 30 if he would have taken some of his easier chances.

But that doesn’t matter. What matters is what he has done for us lately, and what he has done lately is remarkable in and of itself.

In the last four matches, he’s done three things he’s never done before with the Gunners.

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First, he scored in three straight matches for the first time. Then, he scored in four straight matches for the first time. And in the middle, he scored a hat trick for the first time and by all rights should have had another in the next match against Burnley (could have had four, really).

Still, in that span he has scored seven goals and one assist. All in four matches. And with just one match left in the season, all I want is for Aubameyang not to stop now. He clearly understood and rose to the stakes of the recent matches, holding nothing back and leaving nothing up to chance.

He was more clinical than he has ever been, and he has been scoring in all kinds of thundering, thumping and creative ways.

Give us just one more match of that. Let that momentum carry on for just one more match. Even with two weeks in between, and the drama surrounding the match being played at Baku, Aubameyang staying keyed in, staying in form, could be the difference between winning 3-0 and having to grind out a one-goal lead.

That’s a lot to put on one guy, but if anyone is capable of it, it’s the man who already showed that he was capable of it. Valencia was a huge match for him, and he can turn it up to 11 with a similar feat against rivals Chelsea.