Arsenal play their final Europa League group game this evening, talking on Dundalk in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
Here are the official line-ups.
Dundalk: Rogers, Hoare, Boyle, Cleary, Gannon, Shields, Flores, Leahy, McEleney, Duffy, McMillan
Subs: McCarey, Corcoran, Gartland, Mountney, Sloggett, Colovic, Dummigan, Wynne, Kelly
Arsenal: Runarsson, Chambers, Mustafi, Mari, Cedric, Willock, Elneny, Maitland-Niles, Smith Rowe, Pepe, Nketiah
Subs: Macey, Hein, Saka, Ceballos, Holding, Balogun, Cottrell, Azeez
COYG!
What joy — Elneny scoring a goal. What a smile.
I wonder why Nelson isn’t involved?
He is injured
He’s got a minor injury, Kolasinac too
…and why Saka isn’t back home.
Asumme injured? Given he also didnt make the bench this weekend.
He injured his head in training
Only on the bench but personally would have given Saka a night off!
And I’d have put Nelson in there instead…
Can anyone tell me what formation this is going to be?
It’s a 12221 circle formation. Hasn’t been used since 1893.
Missed a 2. *122221
Thanks. Makes as much sense as anything else right now.
532 352 switch.
Looks like 3–5-2
He might play Pepe more central, or just go to 5221 3421 switch, but I would love to see Pepe play up front as sn experiment.
Looks more like 3421 also would have placed Kola as LB and AMN as LM or RM to be more like 4231
Cheers. I would like… I would like to see something good.
I think it’s pretty close to a normal 3-4-3. I’m not sure that suits Smith-Rowe, but I hope both he and Pepe have license to move wherever they can find space.
4-3-3?
Runnarsson
Chambers, Mustafi, Mari, Cedric,
Willock, Elneny, AMN
Pepe, Nketiah, Smith Rowe
I wish
This will be the last easy game for Areta to hide behind. Anything less than 3 points on Sunday is just not good enough! Time to have a plan B in place.
On a positive note it is great to see ESR starting today. Hopefully he can replace Willian soon.
I’m hoping Nelson/Pepe replaces Willian and ESR takes the 10 role personally
#allmanagersout
#everyoneout
Awesome!
Anyone got Mikel’s number? We need to relay these words of wisdom asap. Winning is important. Who woulda thunk it?
haha maybe we can hush in his ear “Ozil In” 😀
Or maybe not
“the door closed behind us with a thunk”
I didn’t know that thunk was a word. I’ve learnt something today on Arseblog
We could reinstate gunnersaurus as manager.
Nelson?
Nelson must be injured. Not involved at the weekend so should be at least on the bench.
Otherwise he’s a gonner in January I reckon which would be a massive shame…
Loan move wouldnt be bad for him, but tbf we would be better off loaning out Willian
Nelson is injuref
Nothing against Nketiah but how many chance is he going to get. If I was Balogun I will be bitterly disappointed & rightly so!
nketiah seems like hes gona turn out afobe/akpom style, need to try balogun to see if hes any better
If I was Balogun I would hand my transfer request in immediately. If he cant get anstart against this lot in a pointless match!
Stay silent, Stan.
Nketiah is a good goalscorer – we need him to continue developing, too. There is room for both here.
Eddie 1 – 0 You
Does anyone else have the same sinking feeling that if Balogun resigns with us he’ll become Nketia or Chuba Akpom 2.0, but if he goes somewhere else he’ll become Serge Gnabry?
Some experimentation perhaps with the tactics?
I saw on Twitter earlier Nelson and Kola have slight knocks so didn’t travel
Oh Jack, that’s not a convenient truth to the arteta team selection bashing rhetoric.
Whats Nketiah good at other than tap-ins? Can’t dribble, can’t hold, can’t head, can’t outpace defenders, can’t shoot from distance, doesn’t link up well, and has hardly assisted any goal. Useless!
Hasn’t any one ever noticed this before?
Eddie 1 – 0 You
Considering how disappointing we have been in the EPL, I have learnt to enjoy EL matches.
Really looking forward.
COYG
whats happened to Nelson?
Small injury
Looks like Xhaka and Willian will be starting on the weekend
Arteta has to start rewarding performances … Elneny, Willock, ESR, Maitland-Niles …
Elneny’s probably lost any chance of playing on the weekend with that absolute belter he scored. That seems to be the way it works these days.
Terrible ref.
Hope Elneny gets subbed at an hour mark, so he can play Sunday. If Xhaka plays then I will literally throw up in my mouth. If Willian also plays I will have diarrhea.
It will now happen for sure.
What a goal by Elneny. I know it’s ”just Dundalk” but everybody knows how to defend these days, and you still need to know how to score such a goal.
He deserves a position and a run in the first team, should’ve played against that lot and he deserved it.
He just came off, so I think he’s going to be a starter against Burnley.