Alan Shearer claimed on Premier League Productions that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang doesn’t stop getting into goalscoring positions despite his recent bad run of form for Arsenal.
On Monday night, Aubameyang netted a morale-boosting brace against Newcastle as Arsenal recorded a comfortable three points.
Whilst Arsenal’s main man was ripping it up last season, regardless of the club’s form, it has been a different story for him this time around.
But Shearer made it clear that strikers should ‘forget’ about getting their form back if they stop getting into areas to score goals, but he doesn’t think Aubameyang falls into that category.
“The most important thing is that you keep getting in there,” said Shearer. “You get in there again, and again and again.
“It doesn’t affect them, as he did in the first half because that for that calibre of a striker is a very good opportunity. But he still gets in there.
“In the first half, he had the defender one v one and the defender showed him on his left foot. He shepherded him away from goal. Now, that didn’t stop him from going on his left foot again. That didn’t stop him from getting in goalscoring positions.
“You know as a forward if you stop getting in [goalscoring positions], you have no chance. Forget it. top-quality strikers go in time and time again – he’s too good for it [his bad run] to go on.”
With Mesut Ozil now out of the Arsenal exit door, many fans were worried that his ghost was left behind in the form of Aubameyang.
There seems to be this curse that every time a big name Arsenal player pens a new lucrative contract, they go off the boil and the worry was that Aubameyang would go down that road.
But the £56m million hitman [BBC Sport] is now beginning to showcase his worth again and push the Gunners up the table.
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