Arsenal are in Premier League action this afternoon, taking on West Ham at the Emirates.
Here are today’s official line-ups.
Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Merino, Trossard.
Subs: Neto, White, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly, Tierney, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Sterling, Butler-Oyedeji
West Ham:
Subs:
Merino hat trick incoming
That would be nice.
But at this point I’ll take a scrappy 1-0 from an own goal off a West Ham player’s arse.
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You beat me to it! 😁 Seriously that’d be quite something but I’ll take a flukey 1-0 in the prevailing circumstances. Come on you tricky red Gunners!
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So MLS has been moved to “Gamechanger off the bench” role?
He would play against Forest on Wednesday.
Trust the coach. He has his own idea for resting him.
Surprised but not surprised. I thought Sterling might get another chance but Arteta has seen enough. If Merino doesn’t work out, what is Plan B?
In fairness, Trossard, Odegaard and Rice also need to start finding the net. Not enough end product from those three.
3-1 to us. Put more pressure on the Scousers.
I would love any form of win but with a clean sheet.
It further breathes confidence into our backline and puts Raya on the run for another golden glove
Merino as the focal point up top probably most designed to activate those guys more than bang in hat tricks (tho please do sir). Blogs saying our midfield can up the level is fair enough – but tough to achieve when youre constantly working the ball to a less reliable attacking line.
Plan B, I am thinking 4-4-2, Merino + Calafiori up front, Trossard + Nwaneri Wide, MLS LB. Amazing stuff.
White to come off the bench early enough. I am curious of the dynamics on the right when he and Nwaneri are on that flank
MLS has played a lot of minutes recently. Yes, he’s young but still vulnerable to injures from overload. His body is still getting used to playing so much football at this level. However, I trust him more defensively then I do califoria who often gets beaten when playing a high line. With a striker like Merino, though, we should easily score 5 today. We’ve never lost when Merino plays striker.
If Merino is your best option at 9 then it makes sense to give him as long as possible to try to score. No point in starting the match by giving 70 mins to plan B.
1-0 scrappy win deflected goal off big Gabi’s arse will do me. All I care about is the result, anything else is a bonus.
Let’s make it a comfortable day win. No pointless yellows or red
Now you have said that, that is exactly what will happen 😮
That aged like spoilt milk
Holy shit I did not see last week’s but this is horrendous
Rice, Odegaard, Trossard are the worst players on the field but god damn what was Calafiori waiting for ? Just attack the ball ffs
Giving the ball away way too often and way too softly
Agreed
Let’s hope we win this one 2-1 with a Nwaneri Special and a clumsy goal at the end !!!
Odegaard is killing us to be honest. he is the creator but keeps playing passes that take us nowhere
Let’s face it – he’s been underwhelming most of the season.
I don’t understand how we look so tired.
We’ve had one game in the last 17 days. But you’d think we’ve been playing a game every other day.
Against Leicester it was the same. Sluggish. No intensity. Sideways passing.
I just don’t know why these players aren’t able to inject any pace into their performances at the moment.
We are lacking runs behind their lines so much
Just once I wish arsenal would show up for a 3pm Saturday kick off, we are flat every single time!!!
It’s clear why MLS has been benching Calafiori. Prolly the worst 45 minutes at the emirates all season. Surely lightning can’t strike same place twice. Thankfully we have 45 minutes to turn it around.
Rice is clearly at fault for not picking up Bowen and has been poor all game
> Surely lightning can’t strike same place twice
Oh boy
With Arsenal lightening keeps striking same place again and again and fucking again. Abysmal performance.
Cannot really complain about this red.
Think we can all agree that we cannot spend everything on a striker since we need another winger this summer.
Trossard is not good enough to be a starter in a team who’s aiming for silverware. Won’t be mad if we sell him this summer but will mean we will have to get two wingers.
Should be able to get Sterling for pennies and still buy a striker
Sterling’s gone.
He’s been playing for 15 years and his body cannot provide needed power anymore I am afraid
No need
Totally inert team performance, not helped by the red card and the fact that every touch on West Ham player is getting deemed a foul which then takes 90 seconds to take. The Arsenal team full of 6s and 8s cannot compete. Considering we have ST on a bench yet Sterling keeps getting brought on is even more damning. Surely young ST cannot be worse than current Sterling form.
For probably the first time this season, nailed on red…….might not of been of raya hadn’t been 40 yards off his line
I’m not sure I agree with the red card considering the distance and Kudus ended the game without a single card despite hand to the head of Raya and studs up challenge on Partey.
Additionally, how did Arsenal end up with 10 on the field but Kudus ended a game without a card?!
Another disappointment. A load of rubbish.