Unai Emery is set to freshen up his side for Sunday’s crunch Premier League clash with Man Utd.
The Gunners will be looking to bounce back from Thursday’s disappointing 3-1 defeat to Rennes, and the Arsenal boss has made it clear he’s going to rotate again to add extra energy to a team which played 50 minutes with 10 men in France.
It’s a massive game for both sides, with the outcome likely to have a significant impact on the top four – not forgetting that Chelsea are in the mix too.
However, first and foremost Emery has to get a response from his side which has had a deflating few days.
“We need fresh players, players with energy,” he said.
“We need quality, we need good combinations, and we need the players who start on the bench after they can help us on the pitch and deliver a big performance as well.”
The two teams met in January in the FA Cup, and the Spaniard is keen to improve on what was a poor result on the day.
“We played against a big team and at some moments showed we can fight and battle with them, but we lost and that is the reality,” he said.
“We need on Sunday to do some different tactical and individual work and after find better efficiency against them.
“I don’t think it is definitive, but we need to show and push on Sunday to take more possibility to finish in the top four.”
I think there’ll be 5 changes:
Leno in for Cech
Kolasinac in for Monreal
Guendouzi in for Torreira
Ramsey in for Ozil
Lacazette in for Aubameyang
I like your changes.
Torreira suspended, so yes Guendouzi, but the 3rd goal last night should’ve been prevented by him, he had 10 yards on Ramsay, and Ramsay nearly made it, Guendouzi should’ve got there…. he was fresh on the pitch too.
I like that these five changes represent five actions on the pitch. After, the players who start on the bench can show their key moments on the pitch for 50 minutes and also 90 minutes.
Yes because we are in the process to make these moments and produce these actions.
I know Unai is trying his best to learn English but he conveys not much. Wonder if these are more to do with how they convey in Spanish and he literally translates it.
Is that you Unai?
Yes to all.
I have the felling he will play a back 3 of Kosc, Sokratis and Nacho, Kolasinac and Ainsley on the wings, Xhaka, Guendouzi and Rambo in midfield and Aubameyang and Lacazette up top with Mkhitaryan, Iwobi and Torreira as subs.
But I think I haven’t predicted the starting eleven correctly once since Unai came in so it’s pretty safe that this won’t be our line up.
Guen for Tor???? Are you out of your mind? Guen was disastrous tracking players on Thurs.
http://7amkickoff.com/index.php/2019/03/07/guendouzi-the-symptom-to-arsenals-bigger-problems/
Also, I’d add AMN for Mustafi, please. Or, ANYBODY for Mustafi, please.
LaPan, Torreira is suspended.
Yes he was obviously awful in tracking opposing players as usual, but Torreira is still suspended. Emery will still have to prep and use him for lack of a better option in a likely high intensity match.
Those are good changes gio, except i’d rather you play, or I play, kr maybe blogs play, than mustafi
Not sure about Kolasanic in for Monreal defensively?
We need Torreira Ramsey and Lacazzete in that match for sure… Leno is sure
We need our best players on the pitch.. what about to have Ramsey and Ozil finally together? For example? Or maybe what about he will start to think this is Arsenal and not Seville?
You want big names ?
We have already big names. All our players play for the best national Teams in the world and not “One game”, but 100s. The manager should be the one who could manage what he has. This is make big managers not the players. Wenger used to have either average players and make them so good… and not just Wenger, of course, either Mourinho did in the past and I could make a long list. Emery have the opposite reputation, to make good football players average or do not use at all. I’m sorry but this is fact and it’s a… Read more »
Do all our players play for the best national teams in the world? Gabon, Wales, Armenia, Nigeria, Greece, Bosnia, Egypt, Switzerland, yes the best national teams in the world! France don’t pick Koscielny, Guendouzi, or Lacazette, Germany don’t pick Ozil, Mustafi, Leno. Spain don’t pick Monreal or Bellerin, Engerland rarely pick Welbeck or Holding. Hurrah for Torreira though!
Well.. Wales, Nigeria, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, France..have done quite well in the recents years, with our players involved. Monreal was in the last 23 for the Spain squad in the last 4/5 years, so Leno and Mustafi , Ozil it’s a world champion. Kos didn’t play the finals because injury. Welbeck always in the national team when is fit. But ok.. if you think we have rubbish it’s fine, but this is mean we make a mistake to allow Wenger to leave because with him and with all this rubbish we won a lot and always been in finals or… Read more »
Richie is damn right tumps down for wat guys, let’s be realistic it’s the obvious truth. Our players in the big footballing countries hardly make the cut in their respective national teams.
Ozil is not on elf our best players.
Damn straight. Ozil is not an Elf he also is not one of our best players.
#dumpthechump
Let’s see if Leicester will do a swap with Chilwell ? Sad day when Ben Chilwell had more equity than Mesut Ozil
Rubbish. Ozil is the most creative player we gave and he has played well in recent weeks. Last night for example he created chances but sadly Aubameyang was off form
But not an elf
We should get an Elf on loan…wouldn’t hurt…
Fabian Delf?
Fabian D elf
?
Sorry, your first name is what?
I really have to wonder, when people like you make these comments, if you really understand how the game is played, or understand the game at all, needless to say Ozil is one of our best players by far no debate!
It’s because some people genuinely don’t understand the game. Mesut is class, end of.
DyGooner when you say “people like you” it talks about the person rather than the comment….we try not to do that on here with respect.
ok Sir.. free country, free speech 🙂
Yes I’d bring on Iwobi in the second half as he looks tired
Biggest game of this season for sure. 4th place will be out of reach if we loose given the form their in and getting players back. I´m going to wish for 3-2 but a draw wouldn´t surprise me.
As usual all macss fit to face us, martial, herera, mayic all return for the game.
On Sunday – Just win. Please win.
Utd is riding high on sheer luck and unjustified penalties.
If they have 1/4 off the luck they had v PSG they will probably win the Champs cup. Remind me of Chelski when they won it, every round outplayed etc
Who cares…
I’m afraid he’ll play Guendouzi who will run about a lot and fall over when he has the opportunity to play a killer ball. He’s a kid for God’s sake, far too much is asked of him. How about the strange idea of playing Ramsey in midfield where he has played all his adult career until this season; it will be interesting to see where Juve play him.
This is more than the three points, top-four-race or makeup for the fuckup on thursday. I fucking hate united and besides the 3 nill within 25 minutes 2-3 years ago i can’t think of any decent perfomance against these fucking wankers lately, even tho they were/are shite. We better turn the fuck up and show some spirit. I’ll go with 3 at the back(Nacho, Kos, Papa), Kola & AMN on the wings, Doozie & Xhaka, Mikhi and Özil wide, Ramsey in the middle and Laca upfront. not gonna happen but anything which put pressure on their wings despite shaw had… Read more »
Great idea, since we’re clueless as to how to play with 10 men, lets go with 12! Should do it for sure.
Mainly not gonna happen because you forgot a gk
Thought Iliev is the obvious choice so no need to mention.
Don’t you think playing without a keeper would be risky? You are giving us 11 players and no keeper
Thanks for not giving a shit if we’re well blogs?
Podcast?!
Leno
Licht Papa Kos Monreal
Xhaka Guendouzi
Ramsey
Mikhi Laca Iwobi
And press the hell out of them.
Let’s face it, the refs are going to treat every Man U player like he’s Harry Kane because of the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Romantic Fantasy narrative going on right now. It’ll be like starting one goal down and them have one red card offence they can cash in for free. So we need to absolutely be on it, and them from the first second. They’re not so great, all 3 PSG goals were gifts one way or another. Take it to them!
It’s going to be Mustafi-Sokratis-Monreal (or Koscielny)
One of Monreal or Koscielny needs a rest. AGE.
BigArse our available team frightens me but your post made me laugh! 🙂
Attack is the best form of defense for us.
The way our defense is, try to absorb and we will concede.
We need to put pressure on the United back line.
Kolasinac has to be worked in. Iwobi and him have developed excellent understanding.
Also Mustafi at Rback is not the ideal. Against Spurs, he felt the effects which ended in the lazy barge on Kane.
Prefer AMN if available.
Mustafi- Sokratis- Monreal. Koscielny may need a rest.
In midfield, Guendouzi and Granit.
Iwobi and Ramsey behind Lacazette.
Lehmann….lauren campbell keown cole…..ljunberg vieira silva pires…berkamp henry.
How i miss that era?
Oh god, yes, and with Overmars. Neville pissing his already pissy pants before those games. Not a minutes sleep to be had.
Help me Woy, help.
Agreed. But let’s not forget Kolo Toure. He played more than Keown during the invincibles year. And I fucking love Martin Keown.
Remember when top 4 was not a trophy. Just saying.
Sad to say that Arsenal needs 10 fighters because of lack of quality defense…Sometimes i think im watching 10 headless chickens running for the Ball, getting tired after time and end with a draw…
Don’t people get tired of arguing about Ozil or tired of trashing Ramsey or even Wenger. Pep came in and spent nearly a billion dollars on players for a team that was one or two years out from having won the league. Klopp finishes one point ahead of us for 4th and then after spending all that money buys keeper and Virgil…top players. man United have spent upwards of 600 million. We spend just enough to fight for top 4. That’s the business model and Wenger held on as long as he could. Now Emery will scrap for top 4… Read more »
I agree This is the new reality for us fans. Wenger held on to top 4 even though we would be disappointed in that goal but in reality we should have realized when you aren’t spending at the highest levels you have to wait for players to trickle down to you that get rejected by the clubs who spend more. So it gets tricky for us to get the players we want. Wenger did the best he could and yes he should have found help delegating the role of scouting and recruiting but it is showing now why he was… Read more »
4th spot was the 6th spot back then.
If you’re not good enough back then, you finish 4th. Now because there are more teams competing, you aromatically finish 6th without trying.
With Sokratis out, none of our defenders match the speed of Rashford and Smalling. So defensively, we must lie deeper than we use to, which probably means a back three. I am worried about penalties.
Lingard back in training and Pogba rested. They played such a weak squad against PSG and now half of them will be fresh against us. I don’t think, based on current form, that we have the capability to stop their run. I’m actually worried this could be another humiliation, OGS will go for the jugular.
Except they were mostly shite against PSG apart from two gifts and an extremely dodgy penalty …. amazing how a fluke win has papered over the cracks. We will smack them 5-1 with Laca getting four.
Guendouzi need to compose himself and try and be accurate with passes. In my own opinion, I think Auba and Laca should both start. Denis Suarez should also play, it doesn’t matter if he comes from the bench.
Hopefully the defence doesn’t go awol. I expect the Norwegian to play anti soccer and hit on the break like his master. The thing is greater possession doesn’t mean goals.In fact it can backfire as our French md was repeatedly caught in possession and outgunned. Emery has to be careful of the MU speedy counter attack .Wenger was paid to pay for this .He refused to change strategy and was repeatedly beaten the by one rf. With his injury depleted side he was massacred 8-2. Any big time manager losing by such a massive margin would have been axed. Hopefully… Read more »
The pundits are predicting a win for our Norwegian pal.However having won 6 matches away in a row,obviously the law of averages has to kick in unless you play in Italy/Spain/Germany where the bigger teams can defy this law. Emery has to make sure all the dm repeat all the danger men in the rd are shackled. Arsenal managed to stifle Erissen/Son and Kane and prevented them running at defe nces or in a one on one. And Emery has to stop crosses from Yang . If Arsenal play like in the Spurs game,they shd win. Btw,pls get someone else… Read more »
This coach doesn’t know what he is doing. I don’t mean to be pessimistic, but we are not going anywhere with Emery. Unattractive football, generally poor team selection. Arsenal actually has decent players, most of them are regulars in their national teams, and with enough self motivation they can beat most teams in Europe. Trust when I say, if Wenger had Torreira, Leno and Sokratis things would be very different at Arsenal. He has destroyed our style of football and is not giving the youngsters a chance. We have Tutu and Jenkinson who is by no means a spring chicken;… Read more »
Guendouzi is a mistake waiting to happen. He need a loan move for 3-6 mths.
He has not yet shown me more than any of our academy players who are aroung team a.t.m.
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I am not convinced that it was Emery who was the “tactical master” in our 1st part of the searon. That all seems to have disappeared, (or left Arsenal?) now, and we are back to a fumbling, bumbling team display, again.
““We need on Sunday to do some different tactical and individual work and show to them our big cojones and take more possibility of a big win.”