Arsenal are in Premier League action this afternoon, taking on Man City at the Emirates.
Here are the official line-ups.
Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Trossard, Martinelli, Havertz
Subs: Neto, Kiwior, Calafiori, Zinchenko, Tierney, Jorginho, Merino, Sterling, Nwaneri
Man City: Ortega, Nunes, Stones, Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Bernardo, Savinho, Marmoush, Foden, Haaland
Subs: Carson, Grealish, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Reis, Khusanov, O’Reilly, Lewis, McAtee
Strong line up.
I would have gone for Nwaneri, Martinelli on the right has been so ineffective.
We need a threat from the bench was the thinking I reckon.
If we are 3nil up by 70mins game is won l just go for the throat from the off.
But in Arteta we trust. Hopefully Martinelli has the game of his life today.
Totally agreed.
The hate and misunderstanding that Martinelli gets from fans is amazing.
‘Hate’?! Don’t be absurd, he doesn’t get hate at all. Just a bit of frustration sometimes.
Would have started Nwaneri and possibly Calafiori but otherwise a strong team. Big match for us, come on you Gunners!
Definitely not Calafiori because MLS is on an amazing run and has earned a start here. Nwaneri a lot more arguable, but he played 90mins or close to it midweek and was recently injured so I get trying to protect him and wanting to play fresher players, and also he’s the best impacter we can have off the bench.
I would have had Nwaneri on right and martinelli left. Arteta may have picked martinelli on right to cover Gvardiol fella which if so is a shame as we need to just go for this from the off. They have a shite midfield and defence that are being constantly exposed without Rodri. Still I trust Arteta so will have to believe. COYG
Martinelli crosses well from the right. Trossard is excellent running into the box for a first time finish. I like the lineup. COYG let’s keep haaland and the rest of them humble!
Calafiori?? Have you seen Lewis-Skelly play?? 🙂
We have the younger stronger legs in midfield- let’s make them count and run them ragged.
Haaland can’t be too happy to see Saliba and Big Gabi’s pockets, where he’s spent many matches already.
I have it on good authority he has a summer home there
Upfront, Arsenal are scrapping the barrel. Starling and Nwaneri only
As long as we aren’t bringing on Robin or blue jay
Robin has been dead to me ever since he left for ManUre.
Let’s hope we really get off to a flying start.
A few tits on city’s bench though.
“Translator to the bar please”…
who knows? Maybe Sterling can give us a swan song performance. Got to leave it all out on the pitch, can’t egret anything.
I fear for Saliba in this game. Hope he doesn’t get injured carrying Haaland around in his back pocket for 90 minutes.
😂
Let’s get them! As a plus, we have all the possible types of LB available.
What an unbelievably weird squad City have ended up with and their signings in January haven’t fixed any of it. They’ve only Kovacic in midfield and he has never been world class. They’ve no natural full backs, and they needlessly sold Alvarez in summer just to replace his profile in Marmoush 6 months later.
The Alvarez sale was probably down to more than just his desire to leave for more playing time, and the marmoush addition is probably structured in such a way to benefit their farce of a balance sheet.
4/5 signings theyve made this month. Have they been told theres a forthcoming transfer ban as a slap on the wrist for all the charges?
Wouldn’t surprise me if they had a person on the inside making them aware in advance of rulings. Little brown envelopes and all.
We really do need to win this game convincingly or it’d be embarrassing against this bunch of crocks!! Wish, just for a change, we’d hammer these tools!!! 4-0 would be pretty epic but even more goals and we’d be in Forest v Brighton territory 👍
1-0 will do, mind.
Out of the subs only Nwaneri has a goal in him
What about Tierney? And (more seriously) Calafiori?
Another sitter missed by Havertz. He’s so knackered, don’t blame him. WE MUST SIGN strikers to help him.
Timber with an early card for a merely loose sliding tackle, Martin gets flattened by Rat Face and not even a free kick. Business as usual from the refs, then.
Havertz!!! 😪😪😪😪
Should be 2-0 should be basically over, kai havertz has a place in this team it just isn’t the main striker
Love the guy; does everything else well, but my word, does even work on his shooting? The worst part is that nobody expected the net to ripple.
Havertz attracts negative attention to himself. There is no reason for that not to be a goal.
He simply havertzed it! 🙄
He costs us more !!!
Should be 2-0 up, now have a nasty feeling it will be a draw and probably with a hideous dose of referee incompetence and/or corruption
We need to go for it, 3-4 otherwise we run risk of another equaliser
That’s more like it
Go Kai go
Chicken for Sunday dinner and I am enjoying the stuffing.
And now Rat Face is allowed to kick out at our players on the ground. A free kick, just. Lovely.
If you see him in the parking garage, it’s also a free kick.
Please ref give us a mythical 8 mins additional time just so Nwaneri and Stirling can bang a couple more in 👍
I didn’t want that to end
Ooh to be a _________,!!
GOONER 🥰😍🤩
Yeaaaaah!!!
I had a feeling we could batter them today and oh how we did it! Kai redemption, young stars scoring, MO scoring.
And MU slump again- Heavenly!