We’re back in action with a Premier League encounter with Watford this evening. With defensive injuries and form to consider, Arsene Wenger had some decisions to make about his team.
Here are this evening’s official line-ups.
Watford: Gomes (C); Kabasele, Mariappa, Britos; Femenía, Doucouré, Cleverley, Holebas; Pereyra, Gray, Richarlison.
Subs: Karnezis (GK), Wagué, Janmaat, Watson, Capoue, Carrillo, Deeney.
Arsenal: Cech, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Monreal, Bellerin, Xhaka, Elneny, Kolasinac, Welbeck, Iwobi, Lacazette
Subs: Ospina, Holding, Coquelin, Wilshere, Ozil, Walcott, Giroud
I like the line up
No Alexis, no Özil, where are we going to get the spark from?
koalasnatch 😉
Iwobi has been playing well, fancy him for a big game today.
Nice to see Arsene spelling it out to Rambo+Alexis to get over their disappointment quickly or don’t play.
Also making Ozil realise he’s got to fight.
These sort of ruthless decisions are the type that’s long been missing.
Hard question. I’m looking to Iwobi. Just fired his country to the World Cup and looking ready to impose himself a bit more on games. A touch more confidence and he’ll be class for us
You aren’t very good at watching football, are you?
Iwobi needs to have a blinder or we will have a hard time tonight. Come on boys!
And Welbeck straight back in. This should be a solid enough lineup but Watford can’t be underestimated. I just hope we have enough creativity here. Good to see Per in lineup. COYG.
Good selection coyg
Love that team.
Won’t be a lack of effort out there today.
COYG
And the bench has quite a bit to prove so looks good too.
Watford have a lot of injuries too so no excuses.
BFG, do your thing out there!
COYG!!!
Anyone catch that boring LiverPOO vs. ManURE game? Both teams should be punished for being so pathetically boring. Imagine spending a gazillion dollars on your team and you manage 1 shot on net the entire game. Special one indeed…
I think Liverpool tried their best but Mourinho’s expensive bus was parked as usual.
*£400m bus
Liverpool looked good going forward but don’t have anyone to regularly bang them in and they weren’t tested defensively. United were awful though, and very lucky
And then Jose moaned like usual about the opposition’s playing style.
Yes. How dare they refuse to let his 11 man defence nick one on the break!
Manure should have hired the walrus. They’d be getting exactly the same football, only it would cost them a lot less.
Seems you may have cursed us to a borefest.
Decent line up all things considered. I like the Iwobi-Lacazette-Welbeck triumvirate: Guile, pace, power.
Let’s break into the top 4 guys.
Queue the media parroting on about Alexis missing and Ozil on the bench. Hope we have good performance today to show we are more than two players. COYG!
The game hasn’t even kicked off yet and BT Sport are on about how we’re going to struggle without them, and about how we lost at Anfield. They can’t go a day without mentioning it.
Hi, it’s me, Ramsey’s Hammies here, and I would like to thank you for resting me for today’s game
I am looking forward! Hopefully Per can slot in the back three! I am excited about Iwobi as our homegrouwn-Ozil and Jacks return to EPL! COYG!!!!!
Cmon you reds. I dont care if the goal comes off someone’s backside. Just win.
Hopefully Jack gets some game time.
Yess..bfg
Great to see Le Coq back on the bench, and great to see Wlbz back to the starting line-up. I’m so glad this season we aren’t forcing players such as walcott into the line-up or over rushing players such as Sanchez and Ozil
Welcome back, Captain Per and Welbz!
Iwobi and lacazette. 2-0
Great to see Coquelin back from injury and Iwobi given another opportunity after being in such good form lately.
Would Xhaka get into any of the big 4’s starting line ups? Nope. Really glad Wenger continues to start with him.
This is a mid table team if ever I saw one
Glad to see aw picking on form not reputation with ozil
My arse
We’re on 13 points, same as Chelsea after their loss today. Let’s make today count!
Oh for fucks sake!
I have never seen such a collection of mediocre and uninspiring players.
Thanks per
This team is garbage, proper mid table stuff.
We’ve had a kind set of fixture and had some favourable results but we haven’t looked good at all.
Bar a set piece goal we don’t look any better than Watford, which is shocking
Ozil was unlucky. When you pass the ball to the gk you do expect better
He gave him the eyes and he didn’t fall for it, they usually do.
2 minutes in the game, Özil sets up Iwobi, only to be thwarted by a great save. THAT is what Özil brings to the table
xhaka and elneney are cack ?
*fucking abysmal
The final 20 mins all the arsenal playeres are static as F.
Subs worked really well again
It’s not even the scoreline that shows how shit we are, it’s the way we played generally.
Anybody who thinks we don’t need alexis is raving mad.
Yup, absolutely shambles for the whole match. Seriously, no plan b.
Goodbye Wenger. Now you are a worse liability than Ozil
We’re as mediocre as mediocrity can get for a club of our stature. Pitiful to watch
Wenger out. Out Out Out Out Out. I just know he will use the exceptionally dodgy pen as an attempted diversion. But face the facts. Not good enough. No spine. Going backwards. Totally fucking shit. Fuck off Wenger.
70 mins on, Wilshere should be given a effing chance. Why the f try to bring him on for the last 9 mins?
What really p’d me me off is when Jack was getting ready to come on, he brings on Holding. I understand that but why not resort to a back four like Watford and still bring on Jack. Why take of Lacca? Giroud is not a super sub. Iwobi is not the answer. Sell Ozil, he didn’t care and why was Elneny on the pitch in the first place . VERy very poor performance and we had the chance to go 4th
So there was the chance to overtake Chelsea facing weak opposition from a team suffering lots of injuries. And what did they do? What did they fucking do???
SHITE!
At least we are showing some consistency. We consistently forget how to win.
Please tell me if I’m wrong,, but they now saying that the watford player could get 2 match ban for diving, if so and gets a ban, found guilty of diving, which should mean no penalty as result of the ban,so if they give him a ban they should change the result to a draw,, u can’t ban a player for diving and then still get the penalty award and the points, it don’t make sense