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Arsenal - Southampton, Saturday at 15:00 UK Time.

awooga83

This is a game that we have to be winning with all we've seen in the recent seasons you cannot afford to drop points in these fixtures. I understand the rotation instinct but I don't feel totally confident with some of those decisions. See how the game pans out, Southampton have looked poor.

Panda

Assume Havertz will be more up front with Jesus in a 2 rather than in midfield.

Surprised Martinelli and Trossard on the bench though.

Should be enough to win surprised by the rotation but not complaining.

banduan

Let's see if it isn't just a 3-5-2

Big Willie

RocktheCasbah understand the disquiet given past events, but this seems less an experiment and more needs must.

Yeah I agree. And on the bright side we haven't moved 3 players in defence all at once like we did when shifting White inside and Saliba further to the left.

Though in midfield I'd have preferred Havertz to remain up top with Tross coming in as the Havertz and Jesus combo has always disappointed for me. Feels like we've dropped points a number of times with that setup vs the Trossard and Havertz combo.

USArsenal

We may be shuffling a little bit, but this is Soton... at home.. They are a terrible team, and will so straight back down. If we don't comfortably beat them, i will be pretty disappointed.

goon

Said it before but I’ve never understood the freak out over Partey at right back. I was there when we put 5 past Wolves with a great performance with him in there and it worked well.

Folks pinned our slow start last season on him being at right back but then seemed to ignore that nothing really changed after we stopped doing it.

Big Willie

goon Said it before but I’ve never understood the freak out over Partey at right back. I was there when we put 5 past Wolves with a great performance with him in there and it worked well.

The freak out last season was because it resulted in Gabriel being taken out of the side and deprived us of his abilities in midfield just to go to right back where, although he played there for Altetico, is not his best position.

This season there is no freak out. It just reminded me of last season. We obviously have 3 right backs out at the same time so not much of a choice as @RocktheCasbah said.

That said Havertz in midfield and Jesus up top when Trossard is available isn't forced upon us though. Kind of worried about that.

MistaT

Just get the win and don’t let Partey at RB tickle your fancy Arteta

Nothing to see here

USArsenal

First corner of the game, we cause all sorts of havoc..

IBL

What a scramble

Gazza M

blustering start by us

USArsenal

How is that not a penno for Sterling? What a play that was.. (in replay, looks like it was only a slight touch and he stumbled)

Coombs

Never a pen.

USArsenal

We look like we want to score early and put this away.. Lets hope for a goal soon. We're really putting the pressure on early.

IBL

Poor pass from Partey there

Panda

Good start. Hopefully the goal will come.

USArsenal

Ughhhhh what a play by Jorge to Kai, he just cant pull the ball across.. Lets go for the jugular.

Coombs

The goalscoring potential this team has...if only...

naz

We should be up, make this pressure count

USArsenal

Our set pieces are so good. Unfortunately, Kai puts it over, but we have so many big guys in the box, its almost impossible to cover all of them.

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