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Arsenal vs Villa, Sunday @ 4.30pm (🤞for a 'good ebening')

Big Willie

Segway You're joking, right?

How else can we initiate Holding protocol?

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Segway fucking obviously 🤣

Segway

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert Nice one 🤣

Mirth

goon maybe. I don't like the league games in between major CL fixtures.

I still remember beatening Madrid at the Bernabeu only to lose to Blackburn on the weekend.

Lukazan

Mirth Ha, I'd forgotten that but now remember it clearly.

"Good" times. 🤣

Clrnc

Assuming Gabriel is available I will start this team

Raya
White Saliba Gabriel Tomi
Rice Partey
Saka Odegaard ESR
Jesus

Qwiss

Clrnc I think on the Jesus and Havertz thing I'd play Havertz here then play Jesus for Bayern.

Clrnc

HomeSteak If Liverpool, West Ham and us lose our respective european ties, 5th place (extra UCL spot) will not go to England. Villa will need 4th place

Clrnc

Qwiss I was thinking we should play Tomi, Jesus and Partey into sharpness

Qwiss

Clrnc I get the idea alright but I'm not sure we can do it all at once without it being a big risk. I'd rather keep easing Jesus especially in off the bench in the PL and use him as a starter in the CL. Especially given reports about his ongoing injury.

Claudius

Raya
White Saliba Gabriel Zin
Rice
Saka Odegaard ESR Trossard
Jesus

Want to reward Trossard who is quietly been our one of best forwards this year. Without Douglas Luiz, ESR worth a shot. Bring everyone else off the bench.
Also want to test more technical pieces ahead of Bayern. They really helped stabilise us 2ns half.

Dragan

Raya
Tomi Saliba Gabriel Kiwior
Jorginho
Trossard Odegaard Havertz Martinelli
Jesus
3 changes from the Bayern team - White, Rice and Saka. Feels like our right side will be key against Bayern without Davies and both White and Saka seemed out of breath by the end of the game. Even though Rice is a fitness monster it feels like the amount of minutes he played has caught up with him and he looked off the pace both against Brighton and Bayern. Martinelli and Trossard can switch flanks throughout the game.
We have 2 days rest on Villa who will be without Luiz and likely rotate a couple more players. After Bayern we have Wolves A and Chelsea H with 2 days rest before each match. If any player is in the redzone fitness wise, this is the game for a breather.

Claudius

The variety in lineups is interesting. And it’s not just the different players. It’s how they’re used.

One note - nobody’s talking about guys like Nelson and Nketiah etc. because we have clearly better players available. And yet we can’t land on single team.

goon

Claudius

Great to have options.

Clrnc

Just realised Douglas Luiz, Cash and Lenglet not available. And they played on thurs night. Definitely a strong advantage for us.

awooga83

This is a fixture that worries me a little not so much about the opposition but our own level and maintaining consistency. It's the question I still have for us is can we manage the run in. There is also a question about what happens if we concede or fall behind that's something that we haven't dealt with in the league recently and how do we deal with that.

Claudius

awooga83 your best predictor of what happens next is what you’ve seen most recently. Does the team show signs of lagging?

awooga83

Claudius well the Bayern game I thought we had some out of character defensive showing and maybe we weren't quite at the level we have been used to. I know Bayern are a different beast to most teams but it was more our own level which I felt dipped and led to an outcome where we didn't come out with a win.

That does cause me a little question about how the team will manage with the pace of fixtures and relying mostly on the same players we have been. So for me it's a question for the rest of the season as well but I think about it going into this game as it's the next one.

Claudius

awooga83 we have had bozo moments against Porto and Liverpool in recent months. So it’s not highly unusual. What’s true of all 3 teams is they had the quality to capitalise. As long as we keep bozo shit infrequent, we should be okay, especially against Bayern and a potential semi finalist.

Burnwinter

I wouldn't rest anyone much who's fit from the off for this. But Saka, Martinelli and White are the trio who seem to need wrapping in cotton wool, if anyone. We could consider Jesus, Trossard and Tomiyasu in their stead.

Emery sides are unpredictable. We're better off fielding a strong lineup and hoping we can withdraw key men early if we're leading.

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