Bielsa asked if players would be upping their game for Arsenal match. Bielsa kicked off and said players should play at the same level whoever they're playing and if any player ups his game there is something wrong and would not be a Marcelo player... like it
Team news Meslier in for Kiko Berardi in for Cooper Douglas in for Alioski Alioski in for Costa Gotts in for Dallas
Millwall at home off since the wallies have won, Shako you will have to hope for a home 4th round tie.
Pleased for Meslier and Gotts...what a game to make your debut in. Highly likely both Beradi and Douglas will have an extremely difficult night...must be odds on that Beradi will see red (card) especially with VAR in operation.
Really interested to see what this keeper is like. Bielsa seems to rate Gotts. Made comments recently about how he deserved minutes on the pitch and how he hoped he wouldn’t leave as result. Maybe WJ can tell me what he thinks of them as he sees a lot of the U23s.
Not far off what I suggested! Me and Bielsa ! Rather have Klich out for Gotts than Dallas but maybe he wants to see Gotts and Klich together to see if it works. It's a decent side that. Congrats to Gotts. Big big game for him. He'll be ****ting bricks!
So now Bielsa's showed his hand it's advantage Arteta. It's a good tactic for league games where it exudes a sort of confident arrogance but I'm not sure an early team announcement is the right thing to do for this game.
Apparently this is how Arsenal will line up: Martinez; Bellerin, Sokratis, Holding, Saka; Guendouzi, Willock; Nelson, Ceballos, Smith Rowe; Martinelli Late fitness tests for Bellerin and Martinelli.
Bielsa says Pepe is worth £72m and why he bought him when he was at Lille, so maybe Arteta wont use him now ahaha. Robbie Gotts is going to be a top top player as they say. He can run all day long and play anywhere. meslier is a fantastic keeper and never seen anyone save penalties like he does. He is as good as Kiko with the ball as a sweeper behind the defence and a good stopper, but hoping we see how strong he is commanding his box against Aubamayang etc
As expected really. Wonder what they charge for cup tickets? 20 quid would be plenty given strength of squads on show
Our fans payed £26 and £36,the one I've bought in the Arsenal section is £60 and by no means the dearest, if close to a sell out I've seen we could make £2 million from the game.
