Bendtner: We Can Play Together

I think they can Bendtner Playin really in the penalty area and Ade switching on to the wings

They're actually not really similar, not to the Rooney-Tevez extent. Ade likes roaming around while Bendtner is slightly more like a traditional centre forward. But we've been using Ade to lead the line because we have no experienced CF. Style wise, it's possible for Bendtner to play the big guy role up front, Ade as a 2nd striker as he's more mobile and better in link-up play. But Arsene was hesitant to do that as the starting line-up (until a few weeks ago when injuries really took their toll) because Bendtner was/is not ready to start and lead the line as the 1st man up front. Given time, it might work. But in reality we've been using Ade as the big guy up front and he's used to leading the line, so it seems like they're similar and not as complementary as they actually can be.

Yeah I know what you/many of us mean when we say they're similar too. They're both big boys, with good skill and aerial threat and all that. While Bendtner's more of an out-and-out striker, Ade with all his work rate and link-up ability enjoys the Bergkamp role (which RvP, Hleb and Rosicky like and to a lesser extent Cesc and Diaby have tried on a makeshift basis too). It's just a matter of how we use Ade. If he's deployed as the 1st man up front, which has been the case, he's doing Bendtner's job with a bit more drifting wide and roaming around. But if we use him as a 2nd striker (kind of like how he worked off Thierry in some occasions last year), he could be like a RvP/Hleb doing link-up work in that hole. For Ade and Bendtner to not look similar, we need them to play different roles. That's what I thought was the key to this. But as it stands, I still think Ade as the big man up front plus RvP in the Bergkamp hole is the best combo we have. We can try Bendtner/Theo and Bendtner/Vela in next year's CC. (Mouth-watering.) Sorry for being long-winded. :P