Arsenal take on Leicester at the Emirates tonight looking for their tenth successive win in all competitions.
This is the team Unai Emery has selected to do the job.
Arsenal: Leno, Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Lichtsteiner, Torreira, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Iwobi, Lacazette
Subs: Martinez, Medley, Guendouzi, Smith Rowe, Ramsey, Welbeck, Aubameyang
Leicester: Schmeichel, Pereira, Evans, Maguire, Chilwell, Mendy, Ndidi, Amartey, Maddison, Iheanacho, Vardy.
Subs: Ward, Soyuncu, Albrighton, Okazaki, Iborra, Fuchs, Ghezzal
Yikes, the defense is threadbare.
Just going to have to score a lot
recon we can do that
This is great! Ozil flanked by Iwobi and Mikhitaryan. But where’s Holding? An injury I missed?
Suddenly Monreal disappeared and Holding is back. Are you messing with me Blogs, or did I start boozing too early?
On the pitch mate…
That is interesting line up. Iwobi over Auba. Unai seems to have confidence in Iwobi or may be due to defensive duties.
Aubameyang is a 40 goal a season explosive no9, he’s not really effective playing wide.
Again Emery with a brave selection, I’m not sure how long he can keep our two No9s happy at the same time? But I can certainly think of worse problems to have.
We’ve got some serious craft and guile behind Lacazette tonight, it’s always a risk going with both Micky+Ozil, hopefully we’ll have a night where they both show up?
Whatever the reason, I do not like Auba on the bench.
Who is “Medley”?
U23 central defender apparently
As an Arsenal supporter you have a responsibility to know our younger kids too! Now as to why he is out there – no idea…
Holding, not Monreal
we left back
Yes.
Wonder what the formation is this time
where is Elneny?
And what happened to Holding?
He is there, nyt where are nacho and sead?
*but
What the hell happened to Monreal omg!…, he’s so important for everything we do down that left hand side…I hope we pull through without him though..#COYG
Where is auba and the 4-4-2, I’ve been looking forward to that the whole interlull
Hahaha we all feel your pain
Maybe with Ozil in the Bergkamp role
How right you were ?
Auba should not be on the bench.
Strong team, nice to see some youngsters on the bench too. Would be nice to be able to get them on to the pitch too
Why the downvote?
Ozil as captain feels like a mistake to me. Doesn’t seem a natural leader, more an enigmatic prodigy. Hopefully the responsibility will bring out the best in him.
The downvotes are insane. Nothing speaks fpr Özol as captain
How wrong you are.
Yeah, he bossed it tbf. Who’d of thought?
Although he’s just scored but I have this feeling there should have been a spot for either one of Welbeck/Auba in that line-up. Too ponderous in our play tonight
3 games this week. Rotation
Lichtsteiner against the counter attacking Leicester, hope he has a good game
Shame he didn’t… pretty poor distribution. Looking a bit past it.
WOW, ozil in the team, are you sure you are alright, back is ok
hahaha. You fud
My feeling towards Özil;
1st to 44th min = > Özil @$$%@#£¥ wake up!
after 44th min = > WE VE HOT ÖZIL!!!
Commentary said the same but in the first half it was clear he was being closed down quickly (smart move by Leicester) but working hard anyway.
Second half he’s been awesome
This is the first substitution of Emerys arsenal career I’ve disagreed with.
I hope I’m proved wrong but Ramsay is too high risk when the win needs to be seen out.
welbeck would have been a smarter move
Really really hope I’m proved wrong
Unai knows.
Downvoted naturally. I’m a Ramsey fan but don’t think his skillset was right at that moment, welbecks industry was what I wanted on the field.
In the end it didn’t matter anyway
Ramsey
Yipeee! That was bloody great.