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3 reasons why Arsenal should sign Gianluca Scamacca

By Adam Schultz

CITTA DEL TRICOLORE STADIUM, REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY - 2022/05/07: Gianluca Scamacca of US Sassuolo (r) celebrates with Domenico Berardi after scoring the goal of 1-0 during the Serie A football match between US Sassuolo and Udinese. Sassuolo and Udinese drew 1-1. (Photo by Insidefoto/Insidefoto/LightRocket via Getty Images)
CITTA DEL TRICOLORE STADIUM, REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY - 2022/05/07: Gianluca Scamacca of US Sassuolo (r) celebrates with Domenico Berardi after scoring the goal of 1-0 during the Serie A football match between US Sassuolo and Udinese. Sassuolo and Udinese drew 1-1. (Photo by Insidefoto/Insidefoto/LightRocket via Getty Images) /
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Arsenal have been linked with Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca with the 23-year-old seen as a player to lead the Gunners’ attack.

Before this season, not many people knew who Gianluca Scamacca was. They do now. The 6’5 striker has burst onto the scene in Serie A with Sassuolo this season, scoring 16 times in 36 appearances.

That is a goalscoring return from a forward that Arsenal has been craving since Robin van Persie left for the enemy in 2012.

The departure of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and the impending exit of Alexandre Lacazette leaves Eddie Nketiah as the club’s sole senior striker. For a team entering the Europa League and wanting to improve on its fifth-place finish, that cannot be the case for much longer.

3 reasons why Arsenal should sign Gianluca Scamacca

Gianluca Scamacca could be the player Mikel Arteta brings in to rejuvenate the frontline, but why are Arsenal right to target the 23-year-old?

I give three reasons why the Gunners should try and sign the Sassuolo star.

1. His aerial and physical prowess

Gianluca Scamacca is an imposing centre forward. (Photo by Evrim Aydin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Gianluca Scamacca is an imposing centre forward. (Photo by Evrim Aydin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) /

Standing at 6’5, Scamacca would be a target man for the Arsenal midfield to link up with. The Italian will also thrive in Mikel Arteta’s system considering how many crosses the Gunners typically deliver.

Arsenal lacked any real kind of aerial threat last season and barely stretched any teams in the air, more so on the ground with their neat link-up and clever touches. With Scamacca, they can give their opponents another thing to worry about.

In a similar vein to Olivier Giroud, albeit with more pace, Scamacca could prove extremely tough to deal with consistently, and given how often Arsenal like to cross into the box, goals could be coming rather quickly.

Against the physical teams in the Premier League, having a player who can not only stand up to the hulking central defenders but relish the chance to go toe-to-toe with them is something that would give players and fans confidence going into those tough away days.

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