Walcott Back in Training: How Much Did Arsenal Miss Him?
At the end of the 2012/13 season, Theo Walcott had scored 21 goals and created 13 assists – his best output in all his footballing years. This ultimately meant that there was a new wave of expectation surrounding the Arsenal star at the start of last season.
Walcott began the 2013/14 campaign at a rather slow pace in terms of his output in the final third, with his assist to Olivier Giroud in the North London Derby being his most telling contribution in the early part of the campaign. He finally broke his goalscoring duck with a technically astute finish against Olympique Marseille but he suffered an abdominal injury in the build up to the home clash against those goons from Stoke and required a surgery to mitigate the problem. This made him miss two months of action.
With the likes of Aaron Ramsey, Serge Gnabry and Tomas Rosicky in good form, Arsene Wenger took a rather cautious approach with Walcott following his return to full fitness. Following a couple of substitute appearances which included creating an assist despite coming into the pitch with just four minutes to spare, Walcott showed what he was made of in the rather dismal 6-3 capitulation in the hands of Manchester City at the Etihad. The Englishman showed good reactions to score two well-taken goals. He followed this up with another brace against West Ham at Upton Park and he began 2014 with a clipped finish against Cardiff that put the game beyond doubt.
With Olivier Giroud falling ill and Nicklas Bendtner suffering an injury to his ankle, Walcott was afforded a chance can to strut his stuff in the center forward position in the North London Derby against Tottenham on Saturday. His linkup play and movement was brilliant but his finishing was a bit wayward. However, on the 81st minute after Arsene Wenger had made all his substitutions, Walcott was tackled by Danny Rose and he couldn’t get back up.
While he was stretched out, he trolled the Spurs fans by reminding them of the scoreline and they pelted coins at him, but the Arsenal fans responded by throwing red and white scarves at their hero while signing his songs. When we had learned that he had suffered an ACL injury, the curtains came down on his 2013/14 and it extended even to the 2014 World Cup.
I can’t stress much about the loss of Walcott without revealing his stats so far last season with some aid from WhoScored,
Walcott began the 2013/14 campaign at a rather slow pace in terms of his output in the final third, with his assist to Olivier Giroud in the North London Derby being his most telling contribution in the early part of the campaign. He finally broke his goalscoring duck with a technically astute finish against Olympique Marseille but he suffered an abdominal injury in the build up to the home clash against those goons from Stoke and required a surgery to mitigate the problem. This made him miss two months of action.
With the likes of Aaron Ramsey, Serge Gnabry and Tomas Rosicky in good form, Arsene Wenger took a rather cautious approach with Walcott following his return to full fitness. Following a couple of substitute appearances which included creating an assist despite coming into the pitch with just four minutes to spare, Walcott showed what he was made of in the rather dismal 6-3 capitulation in the hands of Manchester City at the Etihad. The Englishman showed good reactions to score two well-taken goals. He followed this up with another brace against West Ham at Upton Park and he began 2014 with a clipped finish against Cardiff that put the game beyond doubt.
With Olivier Giroud falling ill and Nicklas Bendtner suffering an injury to his ankle, Walcott was afforded a chance can to strut his stuff in the center forward position in the North London Derby against Tottenham on Saturday. His linkup play and movement was brilliant but his finishing was a bit wayward. However, on the 81st minute after Arsene Wenger had made all his substitutions, Walcott was tackled by Danny Rose and he couldn’t get back up.
While he was stretched out, he trolled the Spurs fans by reminding them of the scoreline and they pelted coins at him, but the Arsenal fans responded by throwing red and white scarves at their hero while signing his songs. When we had learned that he had suffered an ACL injury, the curtains came down on his 2013/14 and it extended even to the 2014 World Cup.
I can’t stress much about the loss of Walcott without revealing his stats so far last season with some aid from WhoScored,
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