The article highlights Newcastle striker Alexander Isak's dominant performance against Arsenal, emphasizing the Gunners' lack of a clinical center forward. It contrasts Isak's direct attacking style with Arsenal's intricate but less impactful approach, using Kai Havertz's missed opportunity as an example.
Newcastle striker isn’t just a player Arsenal have wanted, but a type they have missed – there isn’t a better centre-forward in England right nowmade attempts to sign Alexander Isak from Real Sociedad a few years back. There was some vague, whisper-on-the-wind talk of a bid again this summer. Good luck with that one now.
It is of course an unfair comparison. Havertz is a different player, spending his time on the pitch wheeling around weaving complex forward patterns out of passes, flicks, decoy runs, pieces of driftwood. The problem for Mikel Arteta right now isn’t Havertz. It isn’t the absence of Isak, but the absence anyone who even remotely resembles him.
The Emirates was a bitterly cold place at kick-off, with something fun and light and fizzy in the cut-price pre-match light show, with its mass chip-pan-fire sense of event glamour. The opening minutes were slow-burn from Arsenal. There was one early corner, signal for Jason Tindall to rear up and stand motionless on the touchline, legs spread, radiating massive all purpose set-piece factotum energy.From that point Isak made the difference.
Even the half-time numbers stacked up like a weary roll of the eyes. Arsenal: 14 shots, no goals. Isak: one shot one goal. That made it seven in five and 10 in nine. Isak tends to get them when the difficulty is high, or at least against opponents whose badge suggests it should be. This season goals have come against Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal , Chelsea , Aston Villa, Tottenham .
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