Arsenal are in Carabao Cup action this evening, looking to overturn a 2-0 deficit away to Newcastle in the semi-final second leg.
Here are the official line-ups.
Newcastle:
Subs:
Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Trossard, Martinelli, Havertz
Subs: Setford, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Calafiori, Tierney, Jorginho, Merino, Nwaneri, Sterling
No reason to change anything after that five-star performance on the weekend. Wembley, here we come!
Let’s do these cunts
I thought we would bring in Nwaneri instead of Martinelli since we expect NC to sit deep in a low block.
Nwaneri for Martinelli would have been a great option.
Other than that, the lineup is solid.
Let’s get to Wembley Gunners.
Yes, disappointed on that front. But still we have a more than good enough team to try and make the impossible possible.
It actually beggars belief that by far our best long range threat is starting on the bench for one of the matches we’ll most need a long range threat. Still, I’m choosing to stay positive, and hopefully he’ll deliver when he comes on too.
Going into this with the mindset that we are only fighting for the league and the champions league, so pretty relaxed and feel a frustrating 2-1 win coming on 😂
Maybe the players will be feeling pretty relaxed too, well the barcodes won’t, so maybe we can turn it around as a result? Do away goals count anymore – say it ends 3-3 will it still go into extra time? I’ve lost track 😲
I like that we have no lead to protect going into this. I have a good feeling we’ll edge this against all odds. Let’s give it a real go in MA’s words. COYG!
The guys should just come back in one-piece. Dubai beckons…hahaha.
no broken limbs or torn hamstrings please. we have bigger fish to fry – Champions League and the Premier league. If we qualify for Carabou cup final that’s fine. If we dont, not then end of the world.
Nope, Martinelli is already out with a hamstring injury. Hope it’s not torn.
Early goal is a must.
We’re going to win this lads! COYG
Is their really no academy RB we can put on the bench?
Think Josh Nichols is injured at the moment. He’s the only academy right back that is even remotely on the first team radar.
Since Josh Robinson left for Wigan at the beginning of January you are right my friend
No but there’s Jorgi who can come into midfield so that you know who can shift over to our least favourite you know where
This one calls for risk taking. It’s an all or nothing situation and if we can score early it will force them to abandon the deep block hoping to reestablish the lead.
That should give us openings for the all important second goal and the game gets open for anyone to take. COYG!
When you think they will have a 10 day break after this, you’ve got to go 110% COYG👍🤞🙏
Magpies with 5 at the back, they’ll need more than that, thieving crow-types
Does goals aggregate count here?
Early goal and it’s on like donkey Kong!
Why do the moderator always delete my post here? Racist
How can you call someone a racist when no one has a clue as to your ethnicity? I mean Tony could be in reference to the great Tony Adams? It could be your name – but there are lots of people by the name of Tony that are black, white and Asian – so I’m really not sure where you are getting this idea of someone being racist from?
Come on Arsenal!
Looks like they are going with 5 at the back
Let’s smash these morons !! COYG
Anne Hathaway is sound
I’ve heard she’s a dick.
I mean like a shallow nasty holllywood sort.
Unchanged was a bad idea. Boys are knackered. Geordies are dirty b*rstards & that all equals injuries.
Now we’re 1-0 with no chance, take off all our main players.
Oh and for all you thinking we’ve got 10 days off. If the likes of MO, Havertz, Raya, MLS, Rice etc get a bad hamstring or worse, 10 days won’t do crap.
Odeegaard needs a month’s worth of shooting practice
And passing practice aswell……Where’s the real martin gone
I don’t know why we didn’t put the reserves out and get on the plane to Dubai. The tie was very difficult when we blew it at home and now it’s even harder – it’s just not worth the effort and not worth risking further injuries
Take Rice, Havertz, MO, Raya & MLS off now!
Told you,
1 player off, how many more to go?
Please take our important players off now.
Game is over.
Save the injuries.
“Told you” isn’t helpful. Does that childish phrase make you feel better?
It is an off comment but the way this is shaping out it’s a legitimate point 3-0 down with 45 mins to play and not playing well why risk losing players ?
Does losing one of our best players and one of the few forwards we have left make you feel better? No? Oh ok, maybe you’ll be happy when Rice or Kai is injured too?
And you didn’t tell us you said take rice MO havertz raya and MLS off, that would leave martinelli on the pitch to still get injured, your not the sooth sayer you claim to be from your balcony of hindsight
Yawn. I think even a sp*rs fan could tell that I didn’t necessarily mean those exact players. I was just making the point that playing a full strength team was a mistake.
And martinellis off injured 🤦♂️🤦♂️ shaping up to be an awful night
Already a goal down and Martinelli has a knackered hamstring too!! Should have put the reserves out for this game – on the plus side Liverpool will no doubt beat this dross in the final 👍 but hopefully wear themselves out in the process 👍
We should have put our reserves out and now we have lost Martinelli – we lost the tie after 19 minutes and now we have lost a key player – who next ?
Exactly.
Is it a gamble not adding to the squad in winter? It’s not a gamble, it’s pure stupidity.
But no one could ever have predicted that one of our few remaining forwards might get injured at some point over the rest of the season! So why bring in a forward on loan? Don’t you realize that Arsenal players never get injured, it’s an unforeseen shock if it happens.
Yes, only God could predict. I have never seem one of our players get injured the first match after the transfer window is closed.
Fuckin hell
Same as the reverse fixture.. we have a chance we don’t put it in then Isak gets the better out of Saliba and we’re done
Asking too much in this game. We lost it in the first leg. I just hope our boys finish unscathed. We lost Nelli already 😒
Depends if this fat twat Hooper decide to book them when they kick our players in front of him like Guimares just did before halftime
😆😆
The mighty toon, with a proper manager ,
It’s absolutely fantastic watching the inevitable bottling,
😭
We were shaky since the first minute.
I cannot explain why.
Just hope we won’t have any more injured players.
Don’t worry mate. We trust in the process and wait for the right player at the right conditions to come and sort out the goalscoring issues, em, in the next 10 or so years.
Only see you talking when we lose
That’s because I hate losing.
Give us a break. Nobody’s buying your shit. Go home and watch your team tomorrow.
If you wanna know, i have been an Arsenal supporter since 1998. And if you wanna know more, I woke at 3am to watch the game against City.
The point is, after years of being good enough to be in top 4 and not good enough to win the title, the past few years have been the time when we really had a chance. Imagine if we had Isak or someone similar in the team. It’s just rediculous how penny pinching our owners are.
This is actually a pretty shameful performance now, only one team has showed any heart and willingness to win over the 2 legs and needless to say it ain’t the lot in red
Glad we played a full strength team though
From the sublime to the ridiculous.
Four down get the key players off – it’s done and dusted. It was a Mickey Mouse cup to begin with why bother now ? Pride ? Rest the players and live to fight another day – there are higher priorities out there FFS…
Apparently this is not a popular opinion my friend. Maybe once Rice and & Raya are injured too, some of our fellow Gooners may come round to our way of thinking. Haha
Rays quite rightly decided to take matters in his own hands and made sure Mikel made the substitutions😂
Jeeeeeeeesus havertz really isn’t very good, playing for a superior team gives him the opportunity’s but honestly he would not even walk into crystal palaces front 3
😂😂😂😂 oh wow…..now he has the touch of a hungover Sunday league player…..we really messed up this window
Loving get thumbed down for saying it was a mistake to play a full strength team against these dirty twonks as it would risk injury. Then loads of other people start saying the same not to many thumbs. Oh my glorious fellow deluded Gooners. So predictable.
Funny how the same 4-5 morons appear here every time we lose (:
How shitty their live must be
That’s true. I noticed that losses always generate more comments on Arseblog