• The Arsenal

  • Arsenal - Aston Villa, Today, In about 3 and a half hours.

We need to maintain pressure on Liverpool and be able to do it for a sustained set of matches and see what they do. Villa are decent but we totally messed up against them last year total implosion on our part as they were not really that great and we missed big chances in the first half.

Many of the same issues we have faced will be true today. Can we get the chances and put them away otherwise we should be able to beat them. But these are the tests you gave to get through.

Why did we not sell Kiwior this summer? Very strange.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert He is not Saliba but he is not that bad. Let's say it's just the left foot, maybe?...the thing is, Partey is very bad at right back, and I'm pretty sure we lost points in each game we started him there, granted...when we play him there we also miss a bunch of other players.

It's just hard for me to get why you would move 2 players out of position and have to play Merino in midfield instead of playing Kiwior.

Also, our bench is just terrible: Neto, Zinchenko, Tierney, Sterling, Kiwior, Kacurri, Kabia, Jorghino & Butler-Oyedeji

    • naz

    • Post #17

    Fuck. Hope Saliba isn't seriously injured. He was hobbling near the end of the last game

      Just bad team-building. Regardless of injuries, these options are the result of our tentative stance in the market.

        Cant see us getting 3 points in this game. Partey at RB weakens us in 2 key positions.

        Sorry, but Saliba should be replaced in the lineup by a CB. Timber in the middle weakens us there.. Partey at RB weakens us there. Not having Partey in the midfield and putting in Merino instead potentially weakens us there.

          • naz

          • Post #21

          USArsenal that bench is depressing. I wouldn't start kiwior today

            Arsenal… the worst run, most depressing second placed team in the history of football.

              Red headed stepchild

              • naz

              • Post #24

              Partey at RB is annoying but we have a 100+ million pound player in midfield who should step up. It's a bigger failure by Rice if he can't take over with Merino and Odegaard. They're no chumps and should beat Onana Rogers and the others.

              I'm worried by that Villa bench.

              • Qwiss

              • Post #25

              Coombs it's just terrible selection too. Kiwior is fine as a stand in today. Jorginho in midfield would balance it better than Merino too. It's not about the best man for the job it's about how high up the favourites list you are.

                Dreaming of Ben White these days

                Though that's nothing new

                naz he is not, "tight hamstring"should be one week, source: same people that broke the news this morning that he was injured.

                  Claudius Arsenal… the worst run, most depressing second placed team in the history of football.

                  Oh. I was being ironic here in the face of all the complaining. Looking forward to this.
                  COYG!!!!!!