Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert dramatic. It's obviously not ideal, but we've got one game to get through on Sunday, then an international break and after that we only have one midweek game for the rest of the season. It's manageable.
Injury Thread...It's Never Ending
We’ll find out for sure tomorrow but those French outlets reporting it aren’t known for making things up.
Depends what several weeks means. We play Liverpool in 3 weeks so I’d hope he would be back by then. Hopefully for the Leeds game in a couple weeks.
Hopefully it means he'll rest, miss national duties, and be good to go, no injections for Leeds or Liverpool.
This absolutely sucks.
It wouldn't be so bad if Tomiyasu wasn't injured too but without the pair of them it'll be Holding at cb. I'd rather go back to the Gabriel White Ramsdale axis that served us very well last season but no players I can think of to fill in at RB?
Tomyiasu is out for the season probably
It's really difficult not to hate the Europa League...
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Tomiyasu is a backup player who was using the Europa League to build up his fitness. The fact that he injured himself 9(?) minutes into the game whilst being used as a backup for most of the season, says more about him than it does about the competition.
He's unreliable, and Zinchenko, Smith Rowe, Nelson and Tierney aren't all that far from being the same.
The international break couldn’t have come at a better time.
goon that feels predicated on the notion that we'll conclude the international break with less injuries than we start it with...
Shi.T
Shouldn't have played him really especially if we are trying to lose the game
(Back injury? Bit of a worry for recurrences if true)
So assuming Saliba's out today and knowing Tomiyasu has something more serious, it must be either:
- Gabriel and Holding plus White at rightback
- Gabriel and Kiwior plus White at rightback
That's assuming Zaha plays left, I see he's played quite a lot up front lately. Really wouldn't want to see too much of Kiwior or Holding marking him.
It must be tempting to give Kiwior his wish and drop him into Saliba's place if you're Arteta, not his preferred side but he can play there in theory.
Burnwinter I think Gabriel might also have played on both sides for us during the lockdown season, so there's that option. He's been such a boss on the left though...
RocktheCasbah generally not a fan of disrupting two positions trying to improve one. Just stick Holding in there or if Kiwior is comfortable, play him.
Tam Trying to lose it with our post-shot xG of 2.8?
RocktheCasbah On the left is a crazy role due to what Zinchenko does, really think Gabriel would have to stay there.
Just play Holding. He's a competent player and used to the league. Throwing Kiwior in is a lot of pressure on the young man.