• The Arsenal

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

banduan there was a sonic boom experienced in the midlands just earlier this morning! still alive and kicking so win will have to do

    Interesting. Tomyiasu in to provide more cover defensively with Vieira playing and not Xhaka?

    • goon replied to this.

      Personally expecting creativity and attacking support from him. Running advanced of Saka (inside and outside), other times ground passes into space.

      HomeSteak I don't think so. Wrong side of the pitch and White isn't exactly poor defensively or more attacking by nature. I think it's just an easy area to rotate for some fresh legs given we played on Wednesday.

        Let's see how this works. Vieira has his chance to impress

        They're watching White's fatigue and that's most of it, surely. Can't argue with one or two experiments in this match. In some ways against this mediocrity it's better to fool around a little bit with the selection than put the gold-plated but tired first choice XI under pressure.

        It at home, fresh legs etc. but by all accounts Viera is knocking on the door and personally don't consider White gold-plated! I guessed Zinchenko for rotation given he's made 7 consecutive starts almost right after returning to full training, and could do with another leader out there on Wednesday. Fully expect Xhaka to start and captain that outfit.

        Even if Viera is knocking on the door, only minimal expectation I have of him today is to offer some ounce of team continuity on the road to a win. Will be grateful to him for that alone.

          Man, this team is dripping with ability. We won't have a player on the pitch without a pretty spectacular ceiling.

          No Xhaka—yes I know, I know, he's a very good boy now—can't be all bad.

          KingslandBarge Well I'm not sure if "gold-plated" is the right term, "incumbent" might be better. Either way, I mean the guys who have been winning lots of matches and therefore know they're expected to win more of them.

            Ooh Vieira. Looking forward to see what he can do. Think we he will do well

            That's just ridiculous. Fastest goal ever

            Embarrassing doesn't even cover it

            we're down, weird bounce and angle on the cross and half the team couldn't intervene with the developing attack

            Terrible from Gab, Zinky and Saliba there.