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Former Arsenal star Charlie Nicholas believes Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang should be stripped from penalty-taking duties with his technique not being the most convincing.
The Gabon international squandered a late penalty to win the north London derby against Tottenham Hotspur this month, but he made amends by converting his spotkick in the 2-0 win over Manchester United in the game after.
Still, Nicholas has not been entirely convinced with the approach from the former Dortmund star and believes the marksman brings a sense of uncertainty when on penalty duty.
He told Sky Sports: "You can hit a sweet penalty and the keeper gets a hand to it and it crawls over the line, you don’t care. A perfect penalty is that it goes over the line and it’s a goal. That’s all you care about. But, as an Arsenal fan, I don’t want him taking the next one."
Arsenal are currently occupying the fourth position in the standings and they are ahead of Manchester United and Chelsea by a two and three-point margin respectively.
Compared to them, they have no top-six games for the remainder of the campaign and this should see them favourites to make the Champions League next term, provided they manage to improve on their away form.
Written by Sri Aswin
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