Why Arsenal will touch silverware this year

Ramsey’s terrific goal-scoring rampage has been a feast to savour for all Arsenal fans and the way he seems to be growing, we can see him emerge as a vital main eleven player to the team by mid-season.

However, the team relies to an extent on Walcott’s pace, and he will be needed at more than seldom times during the months to follow. Expect goals from all, Jack, Aaron and Theodore.

Holding in a very heroic manner the bones of this team are Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini. Flamini’s defensive heroics have really impressed, and he forms a sort of sacrum to the spine of the team. Arteta will play a little ahead of him and his contributions from just behind the attacking midfield will be consistent and of quality.

The only worry for the team is the department of defence as has been a regular problem in the last couple of years. Kieran Gibbs is doing a decent job on the left wing and Jenkinson and Sagna pretty sufficiently to the right.

The real worry is at central defence where Koscielny’s hot head and Mertesacker’s sudden blunders can injure and destroy the team’s silverware dreams. Looking at the players, there is great scope for improvement and the return of Thomas Vermaelen will bring both maturity and consistency to the central defence.

The woes of Koscielny and Mertesacker continue

The problems regarding Per and Laurent are only relative to match-day performance and with regard to skill and talent I see neither are lacking. They only need to pick up their boots and intensify the match-day displays.

Wojciech Szczesny is a good goal-keeper with moderate talent and has been consistent between the posts. We can be assured his performance will stay the same and improve as the games roll on.

You will be asking yourself, how can the above synthesized analysis of the present Arsenal team be a foundational edifice of an opinion which supports the theory of the team finding silverware this year?

It is purely relative to the team’s preceding campaigns. I see a more integrated side this year, with not just one or two players who can score goals and provide blithering moments of brilliance in a sudden manner but a team that has attained completion and maturity and can display not only brilliance but also an edifying consistency.

The Gunners always had two or three magnificent players in the side but they always lacked the completion factor. For the last three or four years, I would say more after the departure of Fabregas they’ve always felt like a team built on leftovers.

Arsene Wenger’s genius and a strong midfield managed to keep them scraping the Champion’s League every year. This year, we have an integrated North London side that fortifies itself at the Emirates and they are undoubtedly the team to watch out for. They are hungry and the grace of intent has struck their feet.

By the end of the season, the Gunners will be bringing back home a trophy or two, you can count on it.