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⚽ Arsenal vs Man City , Community Shield, Sunday 6 August 4pm

Ricky1985

Phew, no Saka injury!

Surprised to see Trossard left out, but not surprised to see Havertz included one way or another. With his height and strength, and quality for that matter, he had to play for me.

Ricky1985

Clrnc

I think Trossard will get the nod there in most other games, but Havertz is absolutely vital in playing over the press when it's needed. Especially as Jesus isn't there to aim at.

USArsenal

Haha, i guess Saka not injured, or not too bad. Maybe he will only play the first half. Havertz starting is a bit of a surprise, but not completely crazy. Trossard will get minutes for sure.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Could be a smart move.

daredevil

The game for us hinges on how much joy Martinelli and Saka get down the flanks. Walker and Akanji are athletic, fast and can defend. Which is annoying as it's where Pool often beat them, but their defence is now setup to withstand pacy wingers.

Don't think we will get much joy again down the flanks and we will get beat. Walker leaving would be a huge boost but he's been captaining the side through pre season so might just be convinced to stay.

naz

What's trossard gotta do to start a game. He's impressed me the most. Kai is a big game player so we'll see how he does

daredevil

naz

I think Trossard always gets dropped to give us something off the bench. As Arteta just said in reference to Nketiah being dropped for Havertz, you have to think about how we start the game and how we end it. If we start Trossard, we have no other wingers to bring off the bench.

HomeSteak

Eddie and Trossard out in the work all summer in that position only for Havertz to start lol. But to be fair, he always scores vs City. I'll put 50$ on him scoring today as well.

Ricky1985

I really enjoyed Saliba's battle with Haaland at the Emirates. Saliba looked like he knew full well it was the first of many, and I was very impressed with how he handled him for the most part.

Interested to see how up for it they both are today.

naz

White with a nice header

Ricky1985

Partey... that's such a dumb yellow ffs.

IBL

Ricky1985 barely a touch from Partey, very harsh yellow

Pepe LeFrits

This ref is giving City everything so far, inventing fouls out of nothing

Big Willie

IBL barely a touch from Partey, very harsh yellow

Yup, Odegaards pull seemed more of a yellow than that.

Ricky1985

IBL

It was for kicking the ball away, which they haven't stopped banging on about as the one of the big things they're focusing on this season.

Big Willie

Have to say, they look much more composed than we do. We can hardly string 2 passes together.

daredevil

Big Willie

Same story as last season. Being completely outplayed. Martinelli and Saka also promptly shut down in their lone forays forward.

Big Willie

Ricky1985 It was for kicking the ball away, which they haven't stopped banging on about as the one of the big things they're focusing on this season.

That was hardly a kick away. Literally moved the ball 2 meters.

Clrnc

Ricky1985 he literally passed it softly back. Ridiculous

Pepe LeFrits

Sloppy by Partey

mdgoonah41

citeh have had like 97% possession in 15 mins

Clrnc

mdgoonah41 not unexpected. Our performance generally has been poor this pre season

Big Willie

mdgoonah41 citeh have had like 97% possession in 15 mins

We are staying narrow, giving the wings up to allow them to hit the long diagonals and we are sitting back and not pressing. Seems like it's by design, we'll see how it works out.

Ricky1985

Big Willie

Regardless, that was what the yellow was for...

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