Arsenal are in Champions League action this evening, taking on Monaco at the Emirates.
Here are the official line-ups.
Arsenal: Raya, Partey, Saliba, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly, Rice, Merino, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Jesus
Subs: Neto, Setford, Tierney, Heaven, Timber, Robinson, Monlouis, Jorginho, Nwaneri, Sterling, Trossard, Havertz
Monaco: Majecki, Vanderson, Kehrer, Ben Seghir, Golovin, Akilouche, Caio Henrique, Camara, Salisu, Embolo, Magassa
Subs: Kohn, Lienard, Teze, Matazo, Minamino, Outtara, Ilenikhena, Michal, Nibombe, Tincres
Jesus gets another start. Please put one in the back of the net, man…
COYJ!!
He’s gonna do it today, have a good feeling somehow 🙏🙏
He might save us
let’s pray
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
Any manufacturer of dairy products
Shut it, big nose.
Who you calling big nose
Never mind Jesus, his constant absence makes me worry about the Arch Angel.
All season we’ve waited for MOR midfield . . . . finally we get MOR
Merino scores tonight. I can feel it in me waters.
Tierney just can’t catch a break. Surprised he won’t use him at all.
Yeah, given that T5 could invert from the right, Tierney could’ve done a perfectly good job as LB out of possession and LCB in possession.
He’s played so little football though. That’s probably a factor.
Big night for MLS. Good luck, son.
Mikel said in his presser that Tierney will absolutely get his chance
He meant to say : If we are winning 3-0 and I have no other options.
He will absolutely get his chance…. Whenever all 7 other full backs in the squad are injured, and I start Thomas Partey at LB, of course Tierney will come in at the 87the minute at 6-0.
a few eyebrows raised, lets hope this selection works,
They are doing that now?
I mean, I get hair transplants…
It’s nothing new, Carlos Tevez had it done a bunch of times back in the day.
He did?
I thought he was just constantly astonished that he ended up at West Ham.
less astonished more angry, so much that his frown turned his many eyebrows into a unibrow
I do not like seeing Partey at right back. I DONT.
Well, at least, we’ll finally see what the Merino-Rice-Odegaard midfield combo has to offer.
Let’s make this a comfortable home win guy! To get the confidence juice flowing again.
By the way, i hope we score SEVEN corner kick goals. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Where’s Balogun?
Injured
Arteta has made his mind up about Tierney. Last thing he wants is for him to start and have a really good game.
MLS starting despite Timber being available, this is the clearest sign of Mikel developing as a manager to use his squad more and rotate. Finally! It might come back to bite us in the occasional game but long term my feeling is it will reduce crucial injuries and we’ll end up being better for it. COYG 💪
Obviously would prefer Timber AND MLS starting and Partey playing in his proper position, the Partey at RB thing is turning out to be one of the most frustrating lineup quirk in Arsenal history. but I’m guessing they’re trying to be cautious with Timber, which I 100% support.
I wish he had something to believe he could give Partey the night off on the other side also. Man’s not going to last the season I fear.
Great to see Timber on the bench at least. Glad Merino is getting a start, Rice can control the area in front of Kiwior better and drop in to help him out. Need to get up early and keep the pressure on.
Arteta will get slated if we don’t beat Monaco with this team,injuries explain why Lewis Skelly has to play but why on earth is he playing Jesus,he has not scored since January and misses chance after chance he needs to go he missed another big chance against Fulham on the weekend I am so disappointed with this team selection.
Seems like Timber is still recovering from whatever knowck he took. He’s clearly very good, so I’d just as soon not risk him if we have other options.
On the Tierney front, he’s literally not played in a competitive match in months. Even MLS does have more recent minutes. So that might make sense why that choice was made.
Martinelli should keep off second half. He is becoming careless with tackles while on yellow card. He needs to find his footballing brains very soon before the next transfer window.
Either Leo or Kai
Not sure what Arteta is up to here. Why did Martinelli return to the field?