Wednesday, December 4, 2024

No Ozil in the squad: West Brom v Arsenal teams

Arsenal are looking for their second away win in three days when we face bottom of the table West Brom at the Hawthorns today.

Here are the official line-ups.

West Brom: Foster, Gibbs, Robson-Kanu, Evans, Livermore, Phillips, Brunt, Barry, Rodriguez, Dawson, Hegazi

Subs: Myhill, Nom, McClean, Burke, Krychowiak, McAuley

Arsenal: Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Chambers, Koscielny, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Wilshere, , Alexis, Iwobi, Lacazette

Subs: Ospina, Mertesacker, Maitland-Niles, Coquelin, Elneny, Walcott, Welbeck

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Alphie

Such a shame when he’s been on phone

Glenn

Called his agent, has he?

Third+Plebeian

Depends what he’s doing with his phone.

The Loon Ranger

Predictive text is a pain in the ask isn’t it Alphie? And Özil has travel sickness…..poor little lamb COYG three points please

ronaldo

whats that got to do with the line up

Toure+motors

Is ozil injured? Big loss today

Arsene\'s zip

Slight knee injury apparently.
Better to save him for Chelsea rather than risk it.

Third Plebeian

Guardian reporting a knee injury and that he’s a doubt for Chelsea as well. Bah!

Legrande

Ozil off to a new club?

Atom

At this point I don’t know why we would sell him. Unlike Sanchez he’s actually been playing pretty well and it seems unlikely we would get enough from the sale to be worth missing out on a cl spot for sure

Heavenly Chapecoense

Man U needs a playmaker to salvage their season. Moaninho sending the message that you need to spend the money to get good players.

Atom

It’s highly highly unlikely Man U would pay the type of money (50m as that’s at least what a replacement would cost) to buy Ozil 6 months early given the league is already lost

Damobot

Maybe he is signing for someone else tomorrow? Most likely he’s got Man flu, he very prone to that.

Moses

That was RVP

Mesut\'s Magic

Ozil flying out to Barcelona to sign a pre-contract tomorrow?

Safe Hands

My first reaction is that there should have been a couple of slightly fresher players in there. Maybe elneny, coq, and holding. Let’s hope I’m wrong though. Come on the Arsenal!

Heavenly Chapecoense

Wilshere shouldn’t be playing two games in four days.

Osbert

Ozil rested ahead of the Chelsea game, Sanchez leaving so get what we can out of him before goes.

Rossi88

Wenger has to know whether he can still do it I suppose, before a contract offer. A test I reckon. Should pass COYG

Crash Fistfight

All part of the plan: Wilshere to pick up an injury just in time for Ramsey to return to fitness, thus negating the need for Arsene to actually make a decision.

Vonnie

Mesut rested for the Chelsea game, which is good. Hopefully we can blitz them in the first half and sub a couple of others. Bellerin is being played into the ground.

Dusko

Unfortunatelly we have not “blitz” them in the first half. It has been pathetic.

Jean Ralphio

Maybe Ozil is just being rested with Chelski on the horizon

ItSanogo-al

Ozil replaced by academy player named , ,?

ItSanogo-al

Really? Dislikes for observing an editing mistake. Happy new year to you too haterz

Rich

Why are we playing three at the back?
West Brom have scored 14 goals this season

Stringer+Bell

Midfield has looked more solid with two players in there instead of xhaka on his own. Jack tracking back has been a delight to see. Ozil big miss.

SB Still

Wenger back to his ‘What is rotation day’s?

Surprised to see Kos starting today, considering his achilles!

Also when would Bellarin get a wake up call! Xhaka?

somedude

Xhaka has put in solid performances the last two matches…

Mpls

Not much choice with Nacho out. A bridge too far to run out chambers and Holding or Kolasinac in the back three. Need a captain back there.

neil rafis

Man Utd have told them that they don’t want him playing as they’re about to spend 50 million on him….wish someone would buy wenger

Slaine

Not a line up to be excited about.

XhakaLaca

The formidable triple Alex upfront then! COYG!

Vieras left toe

AAAH why is Koscielny playing

Deano

Must be resting him for the Chelsea match.

On another note just watched Zaha’s dive that got a penalty. It looked remarkably similar to Sterling’s dive against us, yet the pundits seem to have a difference of opinion. When we were stitched up “stonewaller” when they were stitched up “it’s a dive”. Bunch of pratts.

David C

Wenger said Ozil out with a small knock, should be good for ChelSKI on Sheffield Wednesday.

Shank

Complete bollox again, this time in terms of the bench.
Where is Debuchy…….. What is Mert doing there? And as for Walcott there, I mean really!?!?
The first 11 is ok though.

Michael Bolton Wanderers

I’d take welbz over iwobi

SB Still

Alexis is worried about any celebrations discussion and hasn’t scored yet!

gunnerdaremkd

ozil misses the game and what wenger did to rrplace his creativity goi g 3 5 2 and with iwobi in team agai st the mighty west brom who are sitting 20th on table. Show some balls go with to strikers lacca and welbeck change the system. 0 creativity slow passing to the full backs sideways. we are looki g worse than west brom cant stand tbis anymore. old man go retire please.

Georgeycharles

So far, this is not an easy game to watch and how was Barry allowed to get away with that foul on Kolasinac ?!

ArseAboutFace

This team is tired and predictable.
Needs a massive shakeup – starting with the manager..

George

Mike Dean is a low-grade, incompetent, corrupt, farcical thunderc**t.

Fuhgedaboudit

Absolute bullshit call for the penalty. Boring as hell game too. Just kept trying to go through the middle when WBA had their whole team sitting there. Might have even seen a few of their fans in the middle too.

ArseAboutFace

Typical Arsenal to snatch a draw from the jaws of victory.
Mike Dean made the game about himself but it cannot detract from the issues at hand – like the manager still being in post and the team going from challengers to a mid table team in five years..

Espen

Mike Farking Dean, screw him that old cvnt.

George

Seriously, can’t we take out a restraining order or something? He can’t help himself. The card he gave to Cech sums him up – petty, insecure, and completely out of his depth.

santori

We did not do enough to win this.

1) Too slow moving the ball forward.
2) Lacazette…a couple of good moments but on the whole, does not hold the ball up for us.
3) Concentration levels poor again. How many stray passes? I could pass better than that.
4) Mike Dean. We know we are playing against Mike Dean. Robber….why is he still officiating???
5) We need better players to come on than Welbeck

Rufusstan

Mike Dean strikes again.

He;s been OK the last few games. Guess he’s been saving up until he can fuck us good and proper

Georgeycharles

I have always thought Mike Dean was a weasel faced, spud-loving, cunt, but after that farcical decision, I realise I was giving him way too much credit.

Fuhgedaboudit

The BPL needs to get rid of Mike Dean. Horrible penalty call, and if possible even worse yellow to Cech. What a pussy. Post game because Cech was rightfully pissed. Everybody but WBA knows it was a bullshit call. One of the first times every commentator agreed it was a really bad call.

Fuhgedaboudit

I think Ozil being out of this game shows what we miss when he is not on the pitch. Our game was basically void of any good chances. That is why i much rather lose Sanchez but not Ozil. We need to sign him to a new contract.

Calm

That statement about losing Sanchez instead of Ozil almost sounds like you prefer watching football that is nice on the eye rather than winning games. Because though Ozil may look good and create chances, Sanchez on the other hand creates but most importantly finishes them off. As the previous game showed us Mesut was one v one twice (with Alexis giving a peach of a ball for one of them) and missed both while Alexis did the business. Honestly in terms of finishing off chances for Arsenal i would go Sanchez Giroud Lacazette Walcott Koscielny Ramsey Welbeck=Ozil=Mustafi

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