Arsenal take on Brighton this afternoon in our final home game of the 2018-19 season.
This is the team Unai Emery has selected to do the job today.
Arsenal: Leno, Lichtsteiner, Sokratis, Mustafi, Monreal, Xhaka, Torreira, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette
Subs: Cech, Koscielny, Kolasinac, Elneny, Guendouzi, Iwobi, Nkeitah
Brighton: Ryan, Bruno, Duffy, Dunk, Bernardo, Stephens, Bissouma, Gross, Jahanbakhsh, Murray, March
Subs: Button, Bong, Balogun, Kayal, Knockaert, Locadia, Andone
Yup, like the team!
Yup
‘Lichsteiner is an absolutely catastrophic player’. Direct quote from Emery
Don’t be too mean mate, he’s won more league titles than every player in our squad combined. Yes, he isn’t a fantastic player anymore, but no need to be disrespectful.
He is right though – a real bad player.
But then again he is not alone there.
Only Aubameyang can rightly say he has done his job this season..
Arsenal are an awful team…
Good. Hopefully get a couple early, then make some changes to rest players for Thursday. That’s me being optimistic, of course. I’ll try and forget I wrote this if we’re one down after 70 minutes!
COYG
Lichsteiner and Mustafi. Our opponents must be rubbing their hands in glee ?
Lichsteiner AND Mustafi… Oh boy, hold on to your seats fellas….
Lets not be negative yet. I am sure our defenders are better than theirs and our strikers certainly are better than theirs! COYG
i get the want to be positive.
but SL showed in his previous games he isnt upto the pace of the prem.
that was with a run of games to build match fitness…
not sure what jenkinson has done wrong in his outings and id say brighton are perhaps around his level, injured?
Jenkinson was truly awful in his last outing, it’s gonna be hard for Lichtsteiner to be any worse.
I suppose I can be negative now 🙁
Stronger than I expected, but with 4 games left & situation we’re in, no space to mess around.
Let’s win this and then hope for a proper Vardy Party + Theo masterclass!
Also, I’ve only just (and I know I’m very late to this) found out how BIG the gap between the TOP 2 and the TOP3–6 actually is.
That’s completely absurd. Us, Spurs, United, Chelsea – all absolute bottlers.
So if Arsenal and chelski finish 4th and 5th in league and both make Europa final. Are both teams guaranteed champions league ?
No.
That’s Chelsea with a +4 goal difference over us now. We really need to match their 3-0 today.
Auba tripple hattrick just to make sure he nicks the Golden Boot as well.
Agreed – the league is not lost yet, and we can’t think that it is (even though I personally think that it is!)
If we can get level with Chelsea on goal difference, then needing to lose becomes them needing to draw on the final day! COYG
Back 4 is a disaster waiting to happen.
At least United won’t be getting top 4 🙂
We win and at least it goes to the last day. We have faith in Everton at home, no?
We can actually still finish 3rd believe it or not
Not likely but still possible
Everton are away from home, no?
Yeah correct. My bad. I still have hope Sp*rs can go all sp*rsy.
Well they are so far….:-)
Yeah best result SO far anonymarse lol glad to see that lot out of the running ?
Surprised Kos is on the bench, I’d have expected a proper rest for him today.
Hoping for a bit of mkhi Ozil magic today
Sitting on the bench vs sitting in his executive box – not sure there’s much in it if i’m honest! At least this way we can call upon him if we absolutely have to!
Psychological prep and warmups etc vs just watching the game
Just being hopeful to ask this……. if we come 5th and Chelsea 4th…… and Chelsea win europa….. do we sneak into CL?
No
No, it goes to france
I am sorry but such a horrible style of play must be on the Manager. These players are capable of much better performance.
Mother fuckers. Make a fairly straightforward match into fucking dog fight!
When you protect 1:0 with Brighton at home by wasting time and passing back words for 70 minutes.
If we go out on Thursday to Valencia will Emery do us all a favour and leave?
If improvement over last season is anything to go by he should leave…
I would give Thomas Tuchel a go.
I would give Barney the Dinosaur a go.
Anything is better than Emery.
I really want this season to be done and dusted.
And most of all I want Emery to fuck off as soon as possible.
Just do the decent thing and walk away…
Yes because we did so well the last couple of years under the gaffer didn’t we. You seem to think a new manager can come in and turn things around in one season ? How did it take Klopp to get Liverpool to where they are today ? Either show some patience or go support another club …
I don’t like how we are doing any more than you but Rome was not built in a day !
Improvement is what a new manager should be judged over.
Tell me what has improved since Emery’s appointment?
I cannot think of anything that has improved and the table will prove me correct.
There is no time for patience – you deliver or you get left behind because Liverpool, City and anyone else will NOT wait around for us to catch up.
Emery is the worst managerial decision Arsenal could have made and the only reason the cretin was employed was because he was a free agent and cheap.
Cheap cheap cheap.
A false economy there…
There are a number of other players who should been long gone but have been protected by the transfer window!
Its painful watching us these days.
And another season of failure comes to a disappointing end.
This season has been worse than last – at least we KNEW Wenger was leaving…
Emery will just hang on, collecting his ridiculous salary and fail miserably…
hes fucking useless. This bunch of failures are winning nothing
Some idiot must be happy with this season.
Been great ain’t it?
Really – why do you support a club when you are happy to see them fail like this…
Xhaka has cost us almost 20 points this season ALONE, from his individual mistakes.
Mustafi, just sell him already. A total liability
Xhaka,i really HATE you.
I was watching without sound – please tell me the players were absolutely booed of the pitch after that performance?
So to join theshitfest..pakace and brighton at hime. I don,t care the spelling. What a shit team
This is what Emery said on Sky Sports “”We deserved to win. We are very defensively very strong and we had chances to score first half, and in the second half we didn’t take our chances but they defended very well. I have to congratulate them for the way the worked.” This is what we are dealing with – the first ten words sums up perfectly why Arsenal are in decline. I fucking hate Emery…