Arsenal v Chelsea - Tuesday April 23rd - 2000 PM GMT KO: Page 21 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Arsenal v Chelsea - Tuesday April 23rd - 2000 PM GMT KO

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Qwiss I do not want that Bruno scumbag at this club.

DiabyKungFu

Qwiss If we sign a midfielder like Bruno G is there any place for him after that?

I actually think signing Bruno could help unlock playing time for him actually. I think a Rice-Bruno-Vieira midfield makes sense in a way that no other midfield featuring Vieira has made a lot of sense in his time here. I think the big thing with Vieira is that he's an otherwise talented player that just turns the ball over too much. He can win you the game but you need to have two really good defensive partners for him to make sure he doesn't lose you the game. We've never really had that in any serious way which I think has been a contributor to his lack of game time.

Don Pacifico

Pepe LeFrits He's got great ball striking technique. Tends to look great as a sub and then goes completely missing when he starts.

Feels a very similar story to Trossard until recently. And he's playing in a league he's already familiar with.

He showed some promise in the minutes he got just before injury. Think he just needs consistent minutes before he should be ruled out.

Qwiss

Don Pacifico Think he just needs consistent minutes before he should be ruled out.

Yeah but how does he get those minutes?

Don Pacifico

Qwiss by rotating out Odegaard more often earlier in the season.

Qwiss

Don Pacifico we were a lot poorer early in the season, not sure we'd have managed to give Vieira games without a serious drop off. Plus we were already missing Partey and trying to bed in Kai. Probably would have cost us points.

Clrnc

USArsenal

First team in history to win 3 London derbies in one season by 5+ goals.

IBL

Need to make it 4

Claudius

I’m fine with just the 2-0 versus Spurs. It’s United I wish to humiliate. Their fans really want city to win the league over us.

daredevil

Claudius

I would give my left bollock to thrash United at OT. Bear in mind, I already gave my right to thrash Chelsea, so would have to transition for the greater cause.

Claudius

Still watching highlights from last night. Maybe it’s relative to our own game, but one thing that stands out is Chelsea didn’t put any pressure on us when we attacked. Our could pass or drive the ball completely unhindered. Like playing against 10 Rashfords.

Clrnc

Claudius Poch said they gave up very early on

Big Willie

Clrnc Claudius Poch said they gave up very early on

Just need his old team to do the same thing now.

Clrnc

Big Willie have to break their will the same way as last season where it became a training session after 2-0

Burnwinter

daredevil I would give my left bollock to thrash United at OT.

Even though as I've noted I truly love ten Hag and respect his practice as one of the true football concept artists, I was having a little fantasy the other day about exceeding the 8–2 when we visit them.

They're such a weird unit and Old Trafford is such an uncanny, frothing place nowadays that they remain a huge banana skin, but it's also possible (remarkably) to imagine beating them 7–0 and turning the place into a smoking funeral pyre for ten Hag's glittering tenure.

Don Pacifico

Qwiss fair but I do think there has to be some element of conscious, planned rotation. Otherwise we sit on players we never use, which isn't good for anyone.

Big Willie

Qwiss we were a lot poorer early in the season, not sure we'd have managed to give Vieira games without a serious drop off. Plus we were already missing Partey and trying to bed in Kai. Probably would have cost us points.

We did actually play him earlier in the season when we dropped Havertz in October, but then he went and got sent off and then got himself injured while he was out.

Don Pacifico

Big Willie I mean that raises a good point in that we persisted with Havertz during that period, even when he wasn't pulling up trees. Just so happens that Vieira wasn't afforded the same exposure.

samthegooner

I forgot about it but Vieira started in the first Spurs game (along with Nketiah).

Meatwad

samthegooner
we drew with 9 men, not bad.

Big Willie

Don Pacifico I mean that raises a good point in that we persisted with Havertz during that period, even when he wasn't pulling up trees. Just so happens that Vieira wasn't afforded the same exposure

But ge was. Havertz only got back into the team after Vieira's suspension/injury. After his return from that you could argue he wasn't played enough. But he onky has is suspension and subsequent injury to blame for his initial dropping.

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