TRANSFERS 2011:GERVINHO, the Wenger´s Knife

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ORIGINAL SPANISH ARTICLE

http://futbolisticametrica.blogspot.com/2011/09/fichajes-2011-gervinho-el-punal-de.html

 

Despite his youth and has become one of the most promising versatile attackers in Europe. His trident Hazard and Sow has allowed him to snatch Lille Championnat modest two templates better armed in the recent history of French football. 

The expected (finally confirmed) Progress Nasri Alsatian motivated coach wanted to have from that moment a player with different characteristics, but comparatively equivalent and of similar age.

FEATURES OF HIS GAME

His main characteristic is the speed at which relies heavily, to the point that in Lille was the most played beginning

-Technically you are still in formation. He has good dribbling and driving, but lack finesse in the area.

-The area where more needs to be improved is in the tactical, and just reaches the ideal club for it. The Emirates may learn to be more discerning when choosing when to shoot and when to pass, and so its already pretty good statistics improve to make a global benchmark.

His psyche, as is common in many African players can play tricks. Typically play tight and focused but is very reactive to provocation. His first match in England meant expulsion suprimera

STATISTICAL NOTES: Direct to goal.

As is apparent from its features, is a player whose football is direct and desacomplejado: Always moving, always faces and, whenever possible, shoot. This natural tendency so marked that it can make you vulnerable to defensive complex lattices, it is easy to exploit in an English football, especially a team like Arsenal who often have more ball the opposite. 

The progression of their productivity is amazing and the fact that a team jump to a better armed and in a league where the spaces abound, may allow their numbers to continue to improve.

We see in their second and third year the game swung towards the end, invited by their increasingly higher expectations in the face of door: Its 22% of 2009-10 is worthy of a player who can reach more than 25 goals a season.

However the style of Lille was characterized in recent years by high combination which caused the player to return to its original game at Le Mans, when band was put to open passing lanes. Less focused, less lead in the end, his face-to-door rate fell somewhat but remained at levels sufficient to be his best season scoring. Instead asistidora won a large capacity, normally when a player of improvement in both physical destabilizing factors, just figures together and improving their participation in the team's goals, becoming more dangerous.

And that is precisely what is observed in the column on the right: Even participated Gervinho 24 goals last season, no less than 35% of the goals of the French champions.

FORECAST

The feeling he gave in his first game was that although there are many technical and tactical details to polish, from the beginning has been able to impose his script for the game to opposing defenders, standing in the main initiator of attacking moves gunner team.

If he can maintain his averages in France, he justify his title ahead of Arshavin and / or Walcott. But the interesting thing will be if it did in France continues to grow in their ability to grab the attacking play of his team, because the experience of other players of similar profile invites us to think that the more balls available, the more abundant is its offensive production. The glaring case is Cristiano Ronaldo (a more physical player but tactically very similar), when shots went from 100-120 to over 200, went from being a destabilizing end to a ravenous scorer.