Monday Night Football: Andy Cole Unveils Secrets of a Successful Strike Partnership | Football News

Cole talks about the deal between Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and his relationship with Dwight Yorke

Andy Cole spoke about the secrets of a fruitful strike partnership Monday night in football. He spoke about the deal between Arsenal strikers, Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and his own relationship with Dwight Yorke at Manchester United.

While there remained seven games to play in the season, Arsenal had taken the initiative to qualify for the Champions League after a 2-0 win against Newcastle on Monday night. Football had allowed them to overtake Tottenham from third place in the Premier League.

Lacazette and Aubameyang have established an excellent partnership this season and the duo is allied for the second time in Arsenal and Lacazette scored his 13th goal of the season to wrap up his victory at Emirates Stadium.

And Cole was impressed by the understanding they showed in North London.

"What I love is that you can say that they like to play with them," Cole said. MNF. "If one of the two has a chance, he tries to slip the other one for a tapping and when you play in a partnership, that's what you want." You do not want that. I think I need to be 30 years old and that my strike partner has 15 and then surpbaded him by 15.

"You have to play as a team and that's what these boys do."

& # 39; Laca, Auba must play together

With five of the last Arsenal league games outside the house, Cole and Sky sports Jamie Carragher believes that the firepower of Lacazette and Aubameyang is key to the four best chances of the Emery team.

"In the end, if you want to finish among the top four, you have to choose your form on the outside," Cole said.

"If you want to win games outside the house, you have to score goals and try to integrate them both into the team."

Carragher added: "Nowadays, it's not easy to get two attackers into the team.

"The problem with the form on the outside is that most managers will think that they can not face two attackers in a difficult match, but I think he has to face two attackers because they can not keep their record.

"He probably played both times, one of them sometimes, but there was no blank sheet which is an incredible statistic." As a manager, you have to to throw in these games thinking that there is not much chance that we keep a blank sheet then we will have to surpbad the teams.

"We will have to score at least two points to win the match, so we need both strikers on the pitch, and Unai Emery really have to go in the next few weeks, far from home."

Cole on Yorke: a heavenly match

"The partnership between Dwight Yorke and me was so natural.It was an open match. Yorkie's intelligence in football was fantastic.We really gelled on and off the field.

"The friendship has helped.We are polar opposites, but the opposites are really hearing very well.This was not right on the football field, but outside the football field we were very very good friends.

"We enjoyed each other's success 100% We were two central strikers who were more than happy to put each other on the line." When you play in partnership, you have to do things like that.

"I talked to Thierry Henry and Thierry was talking about the partnership between me and Dwight, and the partnership with Dennis Bergkamp, ​​he said that he liked the way Dwight and I were playing as a partnership, without seek to surpbad oneself.

"It was an agreement we had – we always knew where the other was on the ground – we barely spoke on the ground and for me, that's what it's all about. made it even better, we never met each other. "