2 – Chuba Akpom
There’s something about Akpom that you can never fully trust him, but he always seems to deliver a strong performance when it matters.
Whilst he’s not everyone’s first choice to start the season up top, with Olivier Giroud and Danny Welbeck absent, he’s doing everything he can in pre-season.
Proving once again that he’s in the right place at the right time, the 20-year-old has tucked home two goals in three games during the summer and is beginning to outshine others.
Theo Walcott looks set to start up top from the start of the season, but Wenger will struggle to justify that selection following a nervy showing in each of the Gunners pre-season games.
Akpom on the other hand has bags of confidence following a successful loan spell at Hull City, and no longer looks like the cocky kid we all knew just 12 months ago.
Under former Tigers manager Steve Bruce, the striker has improved on his discipline and now understands that he has to work for the team first, then the success will come.
His days in the Under-21 setup at Arsenal were incredibly different, he was the star man who got all the goals and a solo-style is what he carried for the majority of his young career.
However, in particular against Chivas we saw a player who was hungry to do well and his physical ability was enough to forget about the odd mistake he made during Arsenal’s build-up play.
Another couple of decent performances and he’ll get Wenger scratching his head over who to place up top for the Liverpool game. Akpom is a striker, and strikers score goals.
That is of course if we don’t go out and sign somebody by August 14th, with the boss reportedly keen to bring in the unhappy Alexandre Lacazette, it could change everything at the last-minute.