Here are the official line-ups for tonight’s Premier League clash between Arsenal and Southampton.
Arsenal: Martinez, Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Ramsey, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Welbeck
Subs: Macey, Gibbs, Bellerin, Rosicky, Podolski, Sanogo, Giroud
Southampton: Forster, Clyne, Fonte (c), Alderweireld, Bertrand, Wanyama, Cork, S. Davis, Tadić, Long, Pellè.
Subs: K. Davis (GK), Yoshida, Gardos, Mané, Mayuka, Reed, Targett.
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Sweet we got a left back! Mon d’Arse keep this winning run going!
we got both of them back
We have a new no. 1 keeper.
Well, Macey for sure doesn’t know what’s happening right now…. COYG
I was expecting to see Giroud in the stasting XI, but a strong team nonetheless.
COYG!
Just back from injury and he put in a big shift on Saturday. And let’s not forget that at the beginning of the season he looked off the pace anyway due to World Cup hangover.
COYG!! Massive game tonight. Im confident of a 1 nil win tonight. Only flamini looks to me a weak link, hope he has a stormer!!
I’m confident of a 3-0 win, it’s time to hit the ground running and hit high form.
Flamini completed 64 of 69 passes tonight.
Good man Nacho!
And the Rosicky mystery goes on. Wenger should just offload the poor guy and Podolski. They don’t deserve this kind of nonsense 2 mins cameo appearances.
I love both players, especially Rosicky, but both of them were awful when they started against Southampton in the league cup. That said, I hope they get some game time soon.
P.S COYG
Well on that basis, Ramsey has been terrible pretty much every game as has Cazorla, Mertespacker and a few others. So we should never see them again either. Right?
Though it might be important to give them time, it’s even more important to let this XI gel. Let’s try and win some games continuously first.
There’s the busy December period, and the whole of next year till the season ends. We’re going to need Rosicky January onwards…. of course, there may be a chance he’d want to leave after this season. But we won’t let him go mid-season, especially when his performances are crucial for us in the second half of the season
Nice to see those knocks were not that serious after all. I feel like Santi finally finds his scoring boots tonight.
I’ve got a fiver on Arsenal to win and Cazorla to score. Got 24/5. Come on you Gunners!
Cazorla 1st scorer asnl 2-1 60-1
Really looking forward to seeing Chamberlain from the start today. He’s been immense this past month. I seriously have my doubts regarding the fitness of Gibbs. I mean if he’s fit then why not start him unless he’s carrying a bit of an injury.
No schneiderling?
I think we’ve got this.
Long though, he’ll be dangerous.
90 minutes!
A win of course is important as for prem table positions of gunners and saints it is important to see the other big games coyg
This Southampton teams on a real hype, kindly clip their wings and remind them it’s only temporary.
So much speed across front three, Santi has been excellent behind the front three last two games, I fancy him to make a big impact tonight…
I see a big game for Alexis with only Welbeck in front of him. I thought Welbeck and Giroud together last game didn’t leave enough room for Sanchez to get forward.
Pretty good bench of subs as well!
COYG!!!
Speedy front line is the reasoning. Good call.
Southhampton play a high defensive line
With Ox and Alexis on the wings, we’ll get in behind that high line frequently. This is an extremely strong line-up with an extremely strong bench. I am full of optimism for this match!
Disappointing to not see Campbell in the squad….
They may have lost to Man $ity, and have Schneiderlin injured, but that’s still a very good starting line-up for the Saints.
They bring Shane Long in to start, who is a big improvement over Mane. He’ll probably start at LW. He’s quick and a decent dribbler, so The Ox needs to do his defensive work.
Sanchez v. Clyne should be a tasty battle too.
I think it’s good mane is on the bench, if you watched the carilng cup game when we lost to saints 1-2 mane was a constant problem with his speed and trickery, and chambers had real problems to deal with him. With kos and per we should deal with both long and pelle. COYG !
Only one midfield sub. We are a bit depleted there. Hope we can put it to bed early, and let Rosicky get some playing time.
As solid a team as we can field right now. Let’s get’em.
Bit bizarre to put both giroud and sanogo on the bench. Thats 2 players that can only play one position
Indeed. Especially when you have players like Campbell which offers us different things than Sanogo.
First half absolutely rubbish.,