Arsenal need more players to take the burden off Ramsey

Ramsey has grown from the squad player he was last
season to the most important and decisive player on
the Arsenal Payroll at the moment. When the chips
are down, Arsenal fans and even his fellow players
look up to Ramsey for inspiration. He now demands
to have the ball passed to him – look as he urged
Jenkinson to cross the ball to him for that goal
against Sunderland. He also takes matters into his
own hands and doesn't simply pass on responsibility
to some of the more "senior" players, as could be
seen in his winning goal against Swansea, where
other players did everything except to shoot. The
transformation of this young player before our very
eyes is truly remarkable.
Ramsey has scored no less than 3 winning goals for
us in this campaign. When Fenerbahce seemed to be
making some sort of revival, it was his goals that
pinned them back. In fact, it could be said that he
single-handedly qualified us for the knockout stages
of the UCL. If there's one thing Ramsey has improved
upon this season, it is on how to time his run to get
on the end of crosses from Gibbs and Walcott, and
also on his shooting technique. He's scoring so
regularly, that I'm afraid he has forgotten how to
stop!
At the beginning of the season Giroud had been
scoring almost as consistently as Ramsey with 5
goals in 6 games played. However, Giroud has gone 3
games without a goal now, and it's Ramsey's goals
that are keeping our heads above the water. Against
Swansea, Giroud particularly seemed to struggle and
didn't really get a sniff of goal (although he was part
of the build up for Ramsey's winner). Our other goals
have come from the unlikely heads of Sagna and
Mertesacker. With Walcott injured and Ozil still yet to
find his scoring boots, it seems the burden of our
goals seem to be on Ramsey. This shouldn't be a
problem of course if Ramsey should stay fit and
firing. But ideally, we should have at least another
consistent match-winner who will share the goal-
scoring burden with Ramsey.
As a central midfielder – in case you've forgotten –
Ramsey should be forgiven if he goes a month
without a goal so long as he puts his shift in for the
midfield. At the moment, it seems there's a growing
expectation that Ramsey would score (or at least
assist) in every game his plays – it seems we're
developing a Ramsey Reliance!
Ramsey's goals virtually won the two-legged games
against Fenerbahce, Sunderland, Marseille and
Swansea. Should Ramsey score the winning goal
against Napoli tonight people will really begin to
notice. Arsenal have recovered brilliantly from the
disappointing loss to Aston Villa, but how much of
that was due to Ramsey's form? Can Arsenal cope
without Ramsey? How much of our impressive
results in recent games have been down to the Team
rather than the meteoric rise of Aaron Ramsey?
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