Arteta's Set Piece Delivery

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arteta's heart isnt in it....his agent saying that last week i reckon echoes artetas feelings and i cant see him being here next season!

he's played [Poor language removed] for a long time now, and if his injury was so bad to affect his play that much, dont play him. i dont think there is anything wrong with him i just think he wants out. i think he's already got a deal with madrid in the pipeline
 


Oh I agree that Carrick is a good player.

But he ain't 18M good.

SAF paid just a bit too much for him in my opinion but hey, when you've got the money they do, it's not an issue.
 
Just some fact and figures taken from skysports.com about free kick takers. Arteta is the worst. its official. 10 missed target free kicks from 14 possible

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Hi Martin, I have a question thats been burning a hole in me. We all know Ronaldo is perhaps the most stunning free kick taker in the league, but who's the most accurate from free kicks? I'm guessing that Sebastian Larsson of Birmingham is one of them as he always seems to work the goalkeeper. Many thanks, Lawrie Neal, Birmingham
MARTIN SAYS: Well, Lawrie let me put out that fire and fill that hole! You are right to single out Sebastian Larsson as a fine exponent of the free-kick, although he has only had eight attempts on goal compared to the 20 that Cristiano Ronaldo has fired in this season. But, thanks to the boffins at Opta and some simple mathematics at our end, I have come up with some sort of performance chart when it comes to taking free-kicks and testing the goalkeeper. Larsson's accuracy of 75 per cent puts him top of the table, ahead of Ronaldo with 65 per cent - although the Manchester United man leads the scoring charts with four free-kick goals, compared to Larsson's two. David Bentley has not scored that many, but has hit the target 10 times in 17 attempts, while Jason Koumas, Nico Kranjcar and Nobby Solano can all boast a 50 per cent success rate when it comes to getting them on target. At the other end of things, Everton's Mikel Arteta has the most off-target having sent 10 of 14 wide of the mark, Man City's Martin Petrov has missed with eight of 15, and Ronaldo and Bentley have both failed to test the keeper seven times. Here are the leading exponents of the free-kick so far this season...

PLAYER.....................CLUB ......ATTEMPTS ON TARGET PERCENTAGE
Sebastian Larsson.......Birmingham 8 6 75%
Cristiano Ronaldo.........Man United 20 13 65%
David Bentley..............Blackburn 17 10 59%
Jason Koumas.............Wigan Ath 10 5 50%
Nico Kranjcar..............Portsmouth 8 4 50%
Nolberto Solano...........Newcastle 8 4 50%



Taken from this

http://www.skysports.com/experts/expert_story/0,19793,12038_3397705,00.html



As For Arteta leaving. My arse is all I have to say on that. Spread your tat elsewhere. Mikel is a blue. end of story. He will be back with style.
 
Dylan said:
Give it a rest. Arteta is going nowhere.

Rook, have you seen his corners? 80% o the time they don't even clear the first defender! His set pieces have been very poor this season, it seems his strength is in the crosses he delivers from open play.
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The corners I've seen haven't been too bad, I could be wrong after all I only to watch about 1/2 of the matches (if that). Though we can't get rid of him. Arteta is hurt, a couple others are hurt and the team is running on fumes. There is no one on the market that we can afford who would make the team better than keeping Arteta. Losing Cahill was the big blow on set pieces. He always somehow manages to get a head of the ball and he took pressure off Lescott, Yak.
 
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