Alexandre Lacazette may be on his longest run without a league goal since May 2013, but Arsène Wenger is pleased with how the striker has adapted to life in England.
The France international is our joint-top scorer with eight goals so far this season and the boss has been encouraged by his performances, particularly given the physical demands associated with competing in the Premier League.
“It’s a difficult period, the first year, because the family comes over and it’s a bit less football-orientated,” he said. “But you get used to it and he has played many games until now.
“I would say that the physical pressure on the strikers here in England has become absolutely massive. The physical demands and the intensity in the challenges is much bigger than in France.
“[I like] his intelligence, his team attitude and the quality and the speed of understanding with the other players. What he has worked on is to cope with the intensity of the challenges.
“In France you go down and it’s a free-kick. In England you go down and it’s no free-kick. That is much more difficult for the striker to get used to that.
“I think he resists better. This guy is used to scoring 30 goals per year so at the moment even if he says no, I am sure he is frustrated.”
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