Welcome to the Radar, a Sky Sports column in which Nick Wright uses a mix of data and opinion to shed light on need-to-know stories from up and down the Premier League. This week:
🔴 Arsenal: well coached but destroyed? 👀 Leicester's young star with a big future 🔎 A player to watch this weekend
Arteta needs more firepower
Mikel Arteta is examined, since Arsenal comes across to a fifth consecutive season without silverware after their Champions League semi-final loss against Paris Saint-Germain. He did not help himself with some of his comments on the media after the game.
His claim that Arsenal had been the best side in the competition, led to a spot, but after seeing them so many opportunities were rejected over the two feet, only once scored opportunities worth 4.77 expected goals, his frustration was understandable – even if he might have been better served by holding a lid on it.
Arteta can reflect that he did his part and set up his side to create more opportunities than all others against PSG throughout the season, only for a well -known lack of advanced advanced to cost them. The professor of Arsenal was not the only problem, but it was an important one.
The defeat home hammered the need to attack reinforcements.
It is important to naturally state the context of Arsenal's injuries. They have been using a midfielder in the front for three months now. But their front line even does not see enough at full strength. Arsenal needs murderers who are able to arrange marginal games.
Their problems are not surprising how heavily recent recruitment is weighed in the direction of their defense and midfield. Kai Havertz, signed as a midfielder, and the On-Loan Raheem Sterling are their only attacking signing sessions about the last four transfer toy.
It is largely due to Arteta that, despite the failure to add enough firepower, which has left a clear exaggerated dependence on Bukayo Saka, Arsenal still manages to compete at the highest level.
It is indeed worth noting that many of their biggest strengths – their defensive organization, their collective working speed, their set -piece bravery – are in a considerable role of good coaching.
While they are preparing for champions Liverpool on Anfield on Super Sunday, there are also proof of that good coaching in the recent record of Arsenal against their traditional rivals in the interior.
Arsenal fell painfully at Manchester City in the title race last season and this period is far behind the side of Arne Slot, but was more than two years ago that they last lost a Premier League match at one of the 'Big Six'. Tactically, Arteta is rarely surpassed in those matches that have played on the lessons of previous defeats.
In conversation with Andoni Iraola, a window offered last week how his side is seen by other Premier League parties.
“I think Arsenal is one of the best clubs in the world, not only in England,” Bournemouth's head coach told Sky Sports.
“It is a team that is very reliable. You don't find very bad arsenal versions. Even if they are not very good, they are still very competitive. It is one of the most difficult teams you are confronted with.”
The Champions League campaign from Arsenal also proved evidence that they can compete on each side, even in the context of an injuries season.
In the end, however, they find out that good coaching will only get them so far. Arteta is not the problem. Far from it. But he is also not the solution. The club and the new sports director Andrea Berta have to look at this summer's transfer window.
Guardiola under admirers of El Khannousters
Leicester goes down, but in Bilal El Khannouss they have a player who seems destined to stay in the top flight. The 20-year-old Morocco international, signed from the Genk last summer, seemed in difficult circumstances in his first season in England.
Highlights include a winning goal against Spurs in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in January, went into the corner of the net from the edge of the box and a beautiful, out-of-the-boat strike against Manchester United in the Carabao Cup in October.
In reality, however, El Khannouss has served on an almost weekly basis on an almost weekly basis, such as the speed of his footwork and the level of his technical skills.
Michel Ribeiro, his former coach at Genk, where he became known as the best young player in Belgium, described him earlier this season as an “incredible” talent with “eyes in his back” to Sky Sports.
He still has an admirer in Pep Guardiola, who made a protagonist for him after a leading role against Manchester City at the King Power Stadium in December. “He said he was impressed by my game today,” El Khannouss later revealed to a Belgian media outlet.
There are then interested in the interest of numerous Premier League clubs. Last weekend he set up Leicester's opener in a player-of-the-match display against Southampton. He can run more heads against Nottingham Forest on Super Sunday.
Player Radar: Who else should keep an eye on
Ryan Sessegnon shows what a big miss he has been for Fulham this season. The 24-year-old has passed another injury hit campaign, but has yielded four goals and two assists in 471 Premier League minute since his return in March, so that Fulham's last five games started in various functions.
Live Radar: What's on Sky this weekend?
Saturday Night Football Pits Bournemouth against Aston Villa, live on Sky Sports Premier League and the main event from 5 pm before 5 pm.
Super Sunday sees Nottingham Forest-Gastheer Leicester in the early match, start at 2.15 pm, and champion Liverpool host's second placed Arsenal at 4.30 pm, with both matches live at Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event.
Read last week's radar column
The transformation of Enzo Fernandez in an attacking force for Chelsea was the focus of last week's column. He then went and showed why by scoring the opening goal against Liverpool. There was also some appreciation and praise from Danny Welbeck for Bournemouth -Baas Andoni Iraola.
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