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  • ⚽ Arsenal vs Bournemouth, League, Saturday 4th Mar 3pm

I think/hope Arteta will actually rest players on Thursday and not for this one. Seems like a no brainer to play e.g. Vieira against a side from a league he was tearing up last season. We don't need Saka to beat those guys.

It wasn't meant as a criticism or comparison with city and Liverpool. I just meant for me Saka is the only player of that calibre in our team who can get us through those moments. He is an exceptional talent so he may be able to see us through until the end of the season but as with everything about us right now it's an unknown quality. So he may do it but as with us for me we have no precedent here we are in unknown territory and everything we do now is helping me learn and see what we are capable of.

So he may graduate to those same levels where you count on him like a Salah or Aguero. But right now I don't know if we will. So the more games that we have to rely on that the bigger the challenge.

Ah fair enough, agree in that case but that's all a part of us evolving onto that next level. For now though, at least until Jesus is back, we just need to rely on out-footballing other teams and luckily we've been very good at that this season.

Either way I cannot see Bournemouth being an issue.

Gotta start the first team here, the Premier League is the priority. I think the floor of the team has now been raised sufficiently that we can do a little mix and match on Thursday without a disastrous effect on quality there, but let's not take the risk tomorrow.

I’d probably start Jorginho over Partey, and Nketiah over Trossard.

Partey and Trossard can grab some minutes but they strike me as more “needed” for Europa.

Also wouldn’t be surprised to see Viera get a start vs Sporting.

Nice to have these options!

Reporter asked Arteta if we could see two completely different sides for the next two games and Arteta said it's a possibility. I'm not sure where the impression has come from that Arteta doesn't change things up. He has always rotated as much the quality of squad depth has allowed him.

    Well, I guess that's a debatable point in the sense that we have Sambi but never use him (because some would argue he's not adequate squad depth).

    Eddie also barely got game time in the league until Jesus was injured.

    I guess my point is, your squad is as big/small as you want it to be (to an extent) so whilst I understand where you're coming from, I don't think it's entirely fair to say Arteta uses the squad to its full potential.

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      Don Pacifico

      My post was referring to cup games with Sporting coming up.

      League Cup, Europa League and even the FA Cup against City saw quite heavy rotation. With ESR, Trossard, Jorginho, Kiwor all boosting depth I'd expect to see even bigger rotation on Thursday.

          Clrnc well, since he added "as much as quality allowed him to" I guess he could just say that no matter how little he rotated it was as much as the quality allowed him to.

              So guys, been a few years since I been to a game. Friend sent me a scan of his ticket with a QR code. Pretty straight forward to get in or what? I remember entry was either using a paper ticket or a card but it was a while ago.

              Plus the news about people getting banned and stuff is getting me a bit concerned, don't want to cost my mate his season ticket.

                Big Willie Enjoy! I was there when we thrashed them in 2019 even managed to capture the Laca freekick goal on my phone. Hope it'll be a similar outcome for you tomorrow 😄

                             Ramsdale
 White Saliba Gabriel Tierney
            Partey
         Ødegaard Viera 
   Saka Trossard Martinelli

                  Shame this won't be on the local telly

                    KingslandBarge Shame this won't be on the local telly

                    Aren't most games like this? Have to end up watching using a stream or IPTV. Maybe the fact we've been playing EL games last few seasons and ending up playing Sundays makes us more likely to have our games televised but usually in the UK you're extremely lucky to get 2 to 3 PL games televised a month.

                    I am Arsenal Till I Die Don't want to scare you, but I know someone for whom the screenshot didn't work. Is it the QR code from the Apple/Google wallet?

                    Yeah it's from his wallet. That the solution or the problem?

                          Big Willie as long as it's in YOUR wallet, you'll be fine. I think the problem would be if you took a screenshot of the QR code and tried to get in with that.