- A noxious atmosphere is brewing at the Emirates and it could ferment if the Gunners drop points against West Brom, as a poor transfer window comes back to bite Arsene Wenger
Mesut Ozil has created 269 chances during his three seasons in the Premier League and only 32 have been converted.
It's a statistic that will get many Arsenal fans' blood boiling and remains a further illustration of how fruitless Arsene Wenger's forwards have been over the past few years.
Ozil is the most expensive German footballer of all time, Arsenal's £42.5 million record signing and the key bridge between midfield and attack for club and country. He arrived in north London to much hysteria - and rightly so. This season, he has created the most chances in the Premier League, yet the club's leading scorer Olivier Giroud has only managed to net 12 goals.
While various mitigating circumstances help to explain why Arsenal's forwards have not scored as many as they should have - hitting the post and world-class goalkeeping performances to name a few - there's no doubting that this campaign has demonstrated exactly why the majority of Arsenal fans were right all along. They still need a world-class striker.
There seems to have been a missing piece in the Arsenal jigsaw for many years now, be it a solid centre-back able to position himself correctly and lead the team from defence, or a striker competent enough to finish chances fed to him by a player who has easily been the club's stand-out contributor this season. Yet still such a man has not arrived.
Arsenal's heaviest defeat of the season came on Boxing Day against Southampton. The 4-0 thrashing was symptomatic of the team's problems; defensive naivety, the lack of a clinical striker upfront and perhaps even complacency crept into the Gunners game.
Mesut Ozil has created 269 chances during his three seasons in the Premier League and only 32 have been converted.
It's a statistic that will get many Arsenal fans' blood boiling and remains a further illustration of how fruitless Arsene Wenger's forwards have been over the past few years.
Ozil is the most expensive German footballer of all time, Arsenal's £42.5 million record signing and the key bridge between midfield and attack for club and country. He arrived in north London to much hysteria - and rightly so. This season, he has created the most chances in the Premier League, yet the club's leading scorer Olivier Giroud has only managed to net 12 goals.
While various mitigating circumstances help to explain why Arsenal's forwards have not scored as many as they should have - hitting the post and world-class goalkeeping performances to name a few - there's no doubting that this campaign has demonstrated exactly why the majority of Arsenal fans were right all along. They still need a world-class striker.
There seems to have been a missing piece in the Arsenal jigsaw for many years now, be it a solid centre-back able to position himself correctly and lead the team from defence, or a striker competent enough to finish chances fed to him by a player who has easily been the club's stand-out contributor this season. Yet still such a man has not arrived.
Arsenal's heaviest defeat of the season came on Boxing Day against Southampton. The 4-0 thrashing was symptomatic of the team's problems; defensive naivety, the lack of a clinical striker upfront and perhaps even complacency crept into the Gunners game.
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