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Many of our back up players need minutes. I want to see Nwaneri and MLS start this game - as well as Max Dowman. Ben White. Mosquera, Norgaard and Hincapie also.
As I said before Jay. I just don't think Arteta will do this until we've got qualification to the top-8 secured. He will play as strong an XI as we have available until it's mathematically done. In an ideal world, we play a strong XI, are cruising the game by a few goals by the 65th-70th minute and then take off our big hitters early so they can have an earlier rest in preparation for the Sunderland match.
I dunno, seems like we have a few players that could play but are not 100%, I would rather rest them and play them in the next Prem game instead, so if it means a weaker team for the CL game, so be it.
Arteta's comments on Gyokeres don't sound promising. So typical that the minute Havertz is about to come back from injury, it sounds like we may have lost Gyokeres for a little while. I really hope it's nothing overly serious, but I'd be amazed if he makes the Sunderland game. Martinelli also hasn't been called up to the Brazil squad, which means he must be out of the Sunderland game too. We have got an injury crisis in the forward line... Need to get through these next two games and re-group after the break.
Really bad luck - Havertz, Gyokeres, Jesus and Martinelli all out injured at the same time. That's ALL the options for CF out. We can play Trossard and Merino there but neither is ideal.
