Arsene Wenger explains Alexandre Lacazette regular substitutions

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has explained why he is used to regularly substitute Alexandre Lacazette. The Gunners’ boss believes that the striker shows inability to maintain his sharpness for full 90 minute. Lacazette was briefly Arsenal’s record signing after joining from Lyon for £53million in the summer. However he rarely sees a game out to its conclusion as he is being substituted. Lacazette’s opportunities have become even more limited since Aubameyang’s arrival. “I must say that [Lacazette] plays in a position where you sub more than say a defender,” Wenger told the Arsenal magazine. “You substitute a striker more than you would a defender, because they always have to provoke, to defend, to attack, you have to create holes in the defences. The strikers are more subbed than others. “Secondly, he was in an adaptation period where I felt that, without any objective measurement, that sometimes he struggled a bit more in the second part of the game, especially in the last 20 minutes, to create the movement he can. “I put that down to an adaptation period. It was not so much physically - that didn’t drop so much - it just looked like he was a bit less sharp,” Wenger explained.

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