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Arsenal versus Leeds, 17:30 BST Saturday 23 August

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

lorddulaarsenal tiny bit more man chest and shoulders and he'll be ready to start.

Speedster

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

How the fook has he got this power in his legs at 15, he'll have insane running power.

DiabyKungFu

Burnwinter Well, well, well. Just woke up (it's 3:57 am) and checked the score ...

Don't check the injury report.

Burnwinter

DiabyKungFu Yeah, too late ... bugger. Oh well, guess we'll be seeing a bit of the new guys then.

Klaus

Speedster He's Kaka's illegitimate son, man. England better watch out because Brazil are going to lay claim on his boy.

Klaus

Gunner89 I was thinking this too but wasn't sure what to make of it. Maybe he was on the bench because he felt something during warmup.

I hope he stays. I think there's a good opportunity for him to convert to a striker in this system instead, and we need one if Havertz knee is serious. Merino and Trossard feel like dubious backups to Gyökeres.

lorddulaarsenal

Madueke was excellent today

Pepe LeFrits

lorddulaarsenal Particularly glad we signed him now with Saka's injury. Martinelli/Eze/Madueke or Eze/Nwaneri/Madueke are still pretty decent combos for Anfield.

daredevil

lorddulaarsenal

On the right he looked quality - he will make us forget Saka's absence. Really not that concerned about Saka being out now, and he's faster as well.

swider

Good win, I think we played much better without Odegaard. Madueke's performance was a positive surprise for me as I thought he would play more conservatively. Nwaneri was less convincing although he grew into the game.

Klaus

swider Ethan lost the ball a bunch but we were so much more dangerous with him on the pitch. I think Ødegaard gets burdened too much with defensive responsibilities sometimes. At a two-bit fuckwit club like Leeds Arteta should just tell him to go out there and roll them over. It'll come naturally as the season goes on and we start behaving like prospective champions I reckon.

awooga83

Exactly what we need against these teams even though I didn't think we looked great going forwards but we can improve that aspect and suss what we had to today. Just hoping the Saka injury isn't too bad if he's out I think it's very hard to see us doing what we want to for me.

Dom

daredevil

Would Madueke have made that run and finished like Saka? I have my doubts. Saka still doesn't look sharp but the X factor he had for that goal would be hard for Madueke to replicate, especially against the scousers.

Qwiss

Klaus yeah Madueke was ok, didn't do much wrong but he was a little quiet. Nwaneri lost the ball a bit because he was trying to push the issue and make a real impact.

Tactics

Nwaneri seems like a forward playing in midfield to me. The game opened up after our 1st goal, which was the reason why we played better afterwards.

I am concerned about our attacking play before the 1st goal, it's reminiscent of how we played in a lot of games last season. We can't always rely on set pieces to get us out of trouble. Going forward, I'd like to see Eze-Ode-Rice/Zubi in midfield against teams like Leeds

Don Pacifico

Tactics I am concerned about our attacking play before the 1st goal, it's reminiscent to how we played in a lot of games last season.

Me too but it's early days. Season before last felt like it took a while to get going and we ended up putting in our best league campaign under Arteta. We've made a lot of personnel changes this summer, which are also precipitating one of the more significant changes in the way we play with Mikel as manager so I'm hoping we just need more time to become more fluent. First half was incredibly ordinary today.

RocktheCasbah

Best first home game ever. 😁

lorddulaarsenal

We’re evolving beyond Martinelli and Trossard

Tactics

What are the benefits of playing with inverting full backs with our current squad ? Is it to create a numerical advantage in midfield ?

flobaba

Tactics secure the middle. Prevent counters down the center

daredevil

Tactics

It always has been to form a square in the middle of the pitch - but it's only MLS who plays as a pure inverter. Cala plays everywhere and Timber/White tend to stay wide for the most part.

If we're going to play Eze wide and want him to cut inside, Cala overlapping would work a treat. It's going to be problematic if we're pairing Eze with MLS because they both come inside.

est

Man. What a day!

Absolutely buzzing. Can't stop smiling.

And this is with Saka and Odegaard getting injured and potentially missing the Liverpool, City and Newcastle games. Mad. Normally it would add a lot of bitterness to this sweet win, but somehow it still feels like we have adequate cover in the squad to give us a chance.

Fingers crossed it's not that serious for either of them though.

Qwiss

est me too. Missed the first half hour because my kids team that I coach went to the final of their preseason tournament today and ended up winning on pens. Soon as I got the match on we started scoring. Buzzing from them on.

Gunner89

Cala again excellent with 2 assists, v good footballer just suspect to injury

Rice grew into the game, outstanding set piece to start the scoring

Thought Noni was like at chelsea, potential but no productivity, maybe his "underlying stats" are top

Glad to see Big Vik at the double, great finishing, need to get him into those positions

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