He’s like a Cazorla/Arshavin hybrid.
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more like Santi, better in passing
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I mean he’s part Cazorla and part Arshavin.
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High, high praise indeed.
One thing I’ll say is that I’ve never seen a player as two footed as Santi. My guy literally took free kicks with different feet depending on where the ball was. That’s truly generational talent.
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It is natural born.
When it comes to senses, you can improve a bit by tons of hard work, but it is mostly on how you were born.
Trossard couldn’t lace Santi’s boots, that’s how good he was.
Hleb.
Alex Hleb.
For me was even more impressive with his weaker foot.
The thing is, he was pretty shit/mediocre at shooting with both of his feet. He wasn’t a long range passer too, neither was he a very prominent crosser. I think that’s the reason his weak foot never goot that much praise, you just notice it most when someone is shooting, or doing a difficult pass.
But his best quality was obviously dribbling and that’s where he used his left foot eqaully good as his right foot and I only saw that on very few player - not inlcuding Santi.
At times he would just switch between using his right or left foot when dribbling, he would cut inside from the right using his left foot dominantly… Or would use it casualy when he needed to act fast… At times it looked as if he had three feet and would pull off impossible dribbles because of that quality.
Also did corners with his left at Stuttgart btw.
For me Pedro is still the best weak foot player I’ve seen (everything, dribbling, control, shooting; you’re not wrong if you say he was left footed), also Overmars comes to mind just watching the videos.
Oh indeed. I’m just talking about his skillset not necessarily his level. He’s quick, a great dribbler and can score (Arshavin) and he’s two footed, has great vision and an excellent passer (Santi).
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Arshavin and Santi were perhaps two of my favourite players of the Emirates era so I don’t take it lightly as a comparison, but in all honesty I get it. He’s not as much of a maestro as Santi but he does have that aggression and two footedness in his play. He probably reminds me a little more of Arshavin in and around the box where he’s completely ruthless. I mean what sort of footballing psychopaths score 3/4 goals at Anfield.
I also think you have to give Mikel and his staff a ton of credit for getting him right into that 9 position when needed. That dilemma with Arshavin essentially gave Wenger an aneurysm and ruined a lot of the Russians time here, never really finding that natural role. Whereas watching Trossard play there is like having another Jesus on the books and essentially washing away the nightmare that was watching Aubazette never really agree with our football.
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won player of the month, shown his worth really quickly.
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Will be very awkward when he’s on the bench on Sunday! Great March from Mr. Trossard, more of the same in April please.
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Difference maker. Let’s be real here this guy should be starting games
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Him martinelli and saka should be starting
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We’ve not won a game since we dropped him.
Facts #rafa
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play the one in form, not the one in favorite…
Sake should get some rest for so long but still, he started every single fucking game.
He has to play. I don’t care if he’s in midfield but he simply has to start every game.
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Shunned as soon as Gabriel Jesus became fit enough to start. Trossard deserved to be rotated into the starting line-up at the very least.
Hopefully he gets a start in our next game, preferably as the #9 but he’ll likely have to ride the bench once more.
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If someone had told me Xhaka was out for a home game vs the bottom team, I wouldn’t even have looked at the starting lineup expecting this guy to be starting in place, based on form.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t mind starting with him at the Etihad, leaving Jesus as an impact option later on.
Need to keep Martinelli’s pace in.
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If we’re going by merit, Trossard shouldn’t have seen what the bench looks like since we got him.
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