Park Looking for Another Arsenal Goal

Park Ji-Sung is one of the players who has been a constant thorn in Arsenal’s side through the recent past.

Park should be the first name on the team sheet for this battle as Sir Alex Ferguson always tends to save his South Korean for the North London side. Park has the quality on and off the football to be influential and Arsenal need to pay him some attention.

Work ethic and fitness are probably the two biggest qualities that Park has. His passing and striking of a football is good enough to mean he is a threat whenever United are on the attack during a game.

He also has a very good ability of being able to read the game. He makes many more runs off the ball than the majority of football fans will appreciate. Most of the time sides are so transfixed on keeping other players quiet, they forget about this winger which allows him to exploit the weaknesses in the opposition defence.

Park has two main ways of playing in terms of attack. He is not so effective when he is forced to stay out wide, delivering crosses into the box and taking on the full back. However, the rest of the United side is so good at dragging players out of position that Park can simply switch and ghost into space when he comes inside.

Park also has a good aerial ability and this is one part of his game that almost always gets overlooked. His goal against Arsenal in the Premier League at Old Trafford was a superb piece of improvisation that saw him arching back and almost laying on the floor when he converted a rebounded cross.

Park’s ability to pick a pass also makes him a very good finisher in the respect that he can slot the ball home from the tightest of angles and with the smallest of gaps. He’s not a player who crumbles under pressure as his superb finish in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea proves.

Park will be in the United side for his fitness and the protection he gives to the full back. However, Arsenal can’t take their eye off of him for a second.