Siege Hammer & efficiency king, is Yorke really the best answer to solve the gunman s "powerless attack"?

If Yorkecres successfully joins Arsenal, what can this Portuguese super striker bring to the Gunners? Is his style of play suitable for Arteta's tactical system? The Athletic author Thom Harris conducted an analysis.

If everything goes well, Arsenal will eventually welcome the long-awaited No. 9 player.

As TA previously reported, Arteta's team has had in-depth negotiations with Portugal Sports to sign Yocres. It is true that the issue of transfer fees is still in a tug-of-war, but the gap between the two sides is not big, and there is news that Yorke and Arsenal have negotiated a five-year agreement.

Yorkecres has indeed achieved great success in Portugal Sports, with the 27-year-old former Brighton attacker scoring 97 goals in almost 8400 minutes of playing time (about 93 full games). After winning two Portuguese Super League championships and two league top scorers with the team, the Swedish international also began to carefully think about his future and seek new challenges. Many European giants, including Manchester United, have had rumors with Yorke, and Arsenal seems to be the team that has the most hope of getting Yorke. In addition, Arsenal also seems to be the team that needs York's help the most. After all, the problem of their weak striker has long been well known.

Yorcres's data is amazing - he has a staggering physical fitness and shocking ability to score goals - but there are still some problems that need to be solved. Can the Swedish striker, who had not won a chance to play in Brighton before, be able to adapt to the Premier League? And, can his style really match Arsenal?

To this end, we analyzed Yorke's previous performance in Portugal Sports, hoping to find the answer.

Yorke's performance in front of the goal is obvious, and his amazing results in the Portuguese Super League are largely due to his unremitting efforts without the ball.

At the No. 9 position, Yorke never compromises, always puts pressure on his opponent with high intensity, and uses his own strength to break through his opponent, which is also difficult for most defenders to deal with. SkillCorner's tracking data can help us quantify this ability to run, comparing his specific ball-free run with forwards in the TOP7 European leagues. As we can see, most of Yorke's work is done in a forward movement, and he rarely pulls back and tandem offense. When teammates hold the ball, he is always looking for straightforward and destructive ways to attack.

As a productive center, Yorke's persistence in the wing road is far beyond our expectations. But that's the case, Yorke's performance in the open area was like fish in water, and he was able to drive the ball alone on the wing and create a threat.

Yorcres is good at offensive running, but rarely connects

In addition to his desire for offensive space, Yorke's speed, and the aggressiveness he showed when he ran, it is also one of the key factors that makes him so unstoppable on the field.

Judging from SkillCorner's data, Yorke completed 85 sprints last season, straight behind the opponent's defense line, and the average speed of these sprints reached more than 25 km/h - more than twice that of other strikers in the Portuguese Super League. Porto's Aghova is the Portuguese super striker closest to Yorke's stats, but he also has only 41 sprints. As for the Premier League, Nicholas Jackson, the leader in this stat last season, also had 24 fewer than Jokres.

In the following Portugal Sports match against Boavesta, we can see how active Yorke is on the front line. Even if his teammates are not ready, he will take the initiative to find offensive space and enter quickly.

After a quick ball transfer, Portugal Sports moved the ball to the left. Yorke started without hesitation and stepped forward at full speed, providing teammates with a pass option along the sideline. Even if the defenders can keep up, this extreme run will force them to make a man-marking handover—centre-backs are often unwilling to follow the forward across the court, resulting in a complete loss of position.

It was during these uncertain moments that Yorke seized the opportunity and found a breakthrough in the milliseconds when his opponent changed his marking player.

Yorcres received the pass and found himself in his favorite position: facing a "isolated" defender from the left wing. In this case he could choose any direction, but when Kamala blocked the outside, he chose to use his right foot to cut in.

Although Yorke's touch was a little bit big, he was able to twist his body to make sure he could keep up with the shot and hit the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal.

This is one of Yorke's secrets to success: a strong and powerful body that can rush into the scoring position, but can be as flexible as a spring when needed, and can twist the body throughout the penalty area to complete the shot, always ensuring the best touch effect.

Like the example above, when the ball is held, Yorke often moves to the left, which may also be one of the prominent traits that attract Arsenal.

Last season, only 32.9% of Arsenal's offensive touches occurred in one-third of the left side, the lowest proportion of any team in the Premier League. They can't push the ball as efficiently as they do on the other side of Saka, Odgao and Ben White.

The Swedes may not make Arsenal's passes more exquisite, but his commitment and forward impact will undoubtedly provide Arteta's team with more presence on the weak side when Arsenal needs to change the situation.

24/25 season Arsenal prefers to attack on the right side

The following example is Yorke's wonderful personal wing attack in the Champions League match against Graz Storm in Portugal Sports.. Yorkress, who scored four times in April and almost secured the championship, ranked as low as 786th.

Although the Portuguese Super League is the eighth largest league, most teams are not very strong

So, we can do a comparative study between Yorke and Haaland, who also performed amazingly in Dortmund's last season, when he scored 22 Bundesliga goals with a similar mix of brute force and powerful shots.

The Norwegian clearly faces smaller space in English football – we haven’t seen his iconic long-distance run goal in a long time – but Haaland is still able to use his weird physicality to suppress and get rid of the defender as he approaches the goal, maintaining an incredibly healthy goal rate for a more control-oriented, pass-based team.

Yorcres' success is likely to depend on his ability to fight against the defender and find those yards in the penalty area. Encouragingly, his two-year experience at Coventry showed that he was able to handle tough centre-backs, scoring some amazing goals after holding on to the defender, pivoting the ball and finding a blind spot.

Yorcres is a rampage center, and moving forward at full speed is his only idea. He will bring something different to Arsenal, as for whether these changes can help Arsenal end its 20-year championship wait? We can only say that some positive changes are not harmful to the championship.

(Armour)