Former Arsenal striker turned Sky Sports pundit, Thierry Henry has warned the Gunners that they’ll need to move on from their style of ‘pretty’ football to get the best out of Alexandre Lacazette.
As reported by Goal, Henry believes Arsenal need to adapt their style of football to help their summer signing.
Lacazette, who joined from Lyon in the summer, enjoyed a strong start to life at the Emirates with a goal on his Premier League debut in the opening minutes against Leicester on Friday night.
Over the years Arsenal have become renowned for their easy on the eye style of play, playing a heavily possession-based system that can at times see them over play and look for one pass too many.
Their former striker has urged them to play a more direct style of football if they want to see the best of the Frenchman.
Granit Xhaka has it in his locker to play that ball over the top. He has an amazing left foot. If he has time on the ball he does not need to play through the middle sometimes. Why do you want to play what I call ‘the Arsenal ball’ to the winger who comes in the pocket? Why don’t you play the other ball? Does it look pretty? Yes, it looks pretty. But we want to go to goal.
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