Arsenal have won five games in a row now, but with Europe the priority, can we keep it up in the Premier League for games which don’t matter so much?
Here are today’s official line-ups.
Arsenal: Cech, Bellerin, Chambers, Mustafi, Kolasinac, Elneny, Xhaka, Iwobi, Nelson, Welbeck, Aubameyang.
Subs: Macey, Holding, Monreal, Wilshere, Ozil, Lacazette, Nketiah
Southampton:McCarthy, Cedric, Stephens, Hoedt, Yoshida, Bertrand, Romeu, Tadic, Hojberg, Ward-Prowse, Long
Subs: Forster, Pied, Redmond, Sims, Boufal, Austin, Gabbiadini
Laca, Kos and Ozil rested for Thursday. Shows our priorities.
And Ramsey.
Good point.
And Wilshere
Shows our priorities for sure but Burnley are breathing down our necks
Shows our priorities for sure but Burnley are breathing down our neck. And if we finish 7th and don’t win the Europa league and some magic happens in the FA Cup. We will be as mid table team as Crystal palace
Incidentally, my Saints supporting friends says that they have picked a ‘cowardly team’ ie 8 defensive players and the non-scoring Long as the only striker.
This should be a classic then
Marriner as the Ref and Long kicking our defenders….Great 🙁
Nelson starts wow
Looks good. Will Welbeck or Auba play up top?
Auba undoubtedly.
Welbeck , auba on the left
Welbeck’s strike has brought the Emptyrates stadium back to life.
Is that a 4-4-2?
4-2-3-1 I’d say.
take your pick I,d say
Where’s Maitland-Niles?
Would have been a good game for him to get some minutes.
I fancy Nelson to bag one!
Injured.
If Nelson really is the great talent he is being touted as, it’s about time he shows what he can bring. I’m not convinced yet, but maybe that will change after today
How old is he? 18? This is his first League start and probably deserves more than 90 minutes to a show his talents.
I’m excited to see him playing a more natural role. The wingback role he played in Europe didn’t bring out the best in him I think
Must bellerin start?
Excited to see Iwobi in the #10 role. Doubly excited to see Reiss at all.
We need to win altogether
Game plan? Hold the fort for 60 minutes and then bring in Özil and Lacazette to finish it?
We still really need to win
good to see nelson play at last , would like to have seen holding play aswell , but at least amn is not in the team
Come on Reiss! Full home debut in the PL, make us all proud!
I need a win, no matter how. Whether it’s a Xhaka rocket that goes in off Romeu’s balls or reiss Nelson amazing run I need a win. That’s all.
Nice lineup.
Also really appreciate the balanced bench.
Soton are in a relegation battle and Arsenal brought a weaker team. Hughes and them will be fired up for this let’s hope for a good match. By that I mean Hughes losing his top after reiss Nelson hat trick
Can’t we still technically catch up with Chelsea? :/
Technically yes but practically speaking it’s pretty irrelevant as our only route back into the CL is via Europa
Technically we can catch a few of the teams above us, but it’s extremely unlikely any of them will fall apart that badly.
I don’t fancy this lineup but Europe takes priority I suppose.
We already won 4-1. Why take risks with PL game especially a team fighting relegation. Can’t understand
Haha because we can always Arsenal it up!
Looking forward to watching Nelson… please play without fear and show us what you got…
Come on you gunners
What’s happened to the good Mustafi we had a few games ago? This one is shit.