It pains a lot to be writing this but after the Gunners' display against Chelsea I am convinced that there is a lot of catching up to do. We should be scoring more but we tend to lose concentration and get punished. According to Arsene Wenger it is all due to youth and inexperience but the experienced players are equally at fault. We just do not seem to have the hunger which drives Chelsea. Why do we tend to take it easy after scoring a goal? Why do we get punished for lapses of concentration from our senior players? 

I have no idea as to how Wenger is going to address this issue in the summer; most of the goals conceded have been against the run of play or through an opposition set piece which raises questions on the efforts of our central defenders. Kolo Toure and William Gallas have the ability but there are unanswered questions about their partnership. Toure and Philippe Senderos seem to work better together. The fullback positions are also not settled with Emmanuel Eboue and Gael Clichy looking solid and pacy but both of them need to improve their defending and final ball delivery.

The midfield looks creative but I can't see Aleksandr Hleb scoring a lot of goals. Cesc Fabregas controls the game well but he needs to start scoring more.

Everyone would agree with the fact that we lack a genuine goal scorer when Thierry Henry is out injured or indeed off form.  Theo Walcott is young and needs to be given time to mature and not thrown in at the deep end, Julio Baptista is simply not up to it, Emmanuel Adebayor is hard-working but wasteful in front of goal. Wenger needs to get strikers to shoot more when in front of the goal.

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