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Bournemouth vs Arsenal - Sunday 1:30 pm, with Meze, Raki and Baklava

BWoolley

Important that we win this game to get back some momentum after 3 draws. Bournemouth will make this tough for us. I'd go with

Leno
Bellerin----Sokratis----Holding---Kolasinac
Torreira---Xhaka
Mkhi---Ozil---Iwobi
--------Laca---------

Rather bring Auba off the bench because Bournemouth in their new avatar will play deep and compact and not give up much space in behind, so need Iwobi to run at their defense and create something. Wish we had a better right wing than Mkhi, but he will have to do for now.

Prediction: 2-2 draw.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

So crucial to win this considering the following two matches.

I'd have that team too, BW.

goon

Defo a must win, not just because of the two games coming up but the two games just gone.

I'd keep an unchanged side personally, maybe with Sokratis coming in. And where the hell is Nacho?

Qwiss

No way would I bench Auba for this. He can sit out the Europa now that we are through. We'll probably have to rest him when we have Spurs, United and Huddersfild all in the same week anyway so better off playing out best fit XI here. I'd bench Mhki and have Laca, Auba and Iwobi as the front 3.

flobaba

The food is Turkish.

Get it?

Klaus

Play a full team and push hard from the start. We've drawn our last three league games. We absolutely can't afford to waste the first 60 minutes like we usually do.

Qwiss

And we need to get goals, can't be resting either of our 2 goal scorers. Yeah the shape isn't perfect but goals matter more and I'd rather Auba doing fuck all but scoring than Mhki doing fuck all, keeping the shape and not scoring.

Jed

Leno

Bellerin Sokratis Holding Kolasinac

Torreira Xhaka

Iwobi Ozil Lacazette

Aubameyang

TambourineMan

---------------Leno------------
Bellerin-Sokratis-Holding-Monreal
---------Xhaka--Torriera--------
---Ozil----Lacazette--Iwobi-----
-----------Aubameyang-----------

0-3!

MistaT

Lovely meal plan, will happily oblige

Iwobi > Au a for me

lorddulaarsenal

Think we’ll lose here. Tricky place to go. They play with intensity we don’t like

lorddulaarsenal

I’d go

—————-Leno
Bellerin-Mustafi-Holding-Kolasinac
———-Torriera—Guendouzi
—Iwobi——-Ozil——Aubameyang
————-Lacazette

flobaba

I want them to bring it. I think we are mentally up for the challenge.

Yo, Burns. Tell them.

What kind of machines are we Burns?

banduan

Mmmmm baklavas. Let's win this then!

Tam

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46254655

Would normally be more suited to Football Talk but given we're playing them, here's an interesting article on Howe.

Don Pacifico

In Milan this weekend, don't suppose anyone knows anywhere good there to watch Arsenal matches?

Ricky1985

Tam wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46254655

Would normally be more suited to Football Talk but given we're playing them, here's an interesting article on Howe.

He's just so very impressive. Thanks for linking to it mate.

A part of me wishes we had offered him the job instead of Emery, but with Wenger being here so long and Howe having to manage big stars and European football for the first time, it could have gone horribly wrong.

I just hope he doesn't end up Spurs manager when Pochetinno leaves...

goon

I think he's impressive too. I wouldn't mind giving him a go in three years.

banduan

We did have talk here about having him replace Wenger, I entertained the idea too. The problem was he showed signs of the very same sort of tactical naivete that Wenger had. Bournemouth would have fantastic games then get turned over 4-0 by some relegation tier club. We'd literally be replacing like for like, although by that point we were deteriorating beyond belief and could probably have done with some like for like replacement anyway.

Claudius

Don Pacifico wrote:
In Milan this weekend, don't suppose anyone knows anywhere good there to watch Arsenal matches?

Don't know. But go watch the Milan games. Inter are home tomorrow. I'm actually annoyed. Had to cut my Berlin trip short, so leaving tomorrow afternoon, meaning I'll miss Reiss Nelson in town. Really wanted to see him

As for the game this weekend. I want all our best players and a message that they mustn't leave the field without having put at least 3 past Bournemouth