Swansea: Vorm; Richards, Chico, Bartley, Tiendalli; Britton, Agustien, de Guzman; Routledge, Graham, Dyer. Subs: Tremmel Monk Davies Ki Shechter Hernandez Michu
I think it's better to start with a strong line up and try and win the game. Personally, I would have started with Ramsey over Coquelin.
I think Wenger put in Coq for Ramsey just to have one out and out midfielder out there to defend. Swansea are an attacking team, so might be risky to be going into midfield with Wilshere, Ramsey, and Diaby, all mainly attack minded midfielders. I think the main issue that sticks out, is how we need a well established DMF in this team, nobody seems to have that much faith in Coq, imagine this was a game against Munich? We need a new face in the middle.
Looks like Cazorla will play on the wings tonight. Maybe a change of position might help him. More space and allowed to drift in from the wings.
OR, Cazorla, might be playing mainly down the middle, with Diaby deploying to the left wing, Wenger has done that with Diaby before.
Hope not. Diaby although he had a few decent games on the left (Milan away) is never ever a wide play. Santi has played there for Malaga and Spain.
i think it's a small risk to be playing diaby, he had a reserve game, then his first competitive game to City of all teams, and then spent most of that much 10 vs 11, so might be too much to be playing again now in mid-week.
The other option would be to play four across the middle with Ramsey and Wilshere in the centre, with Cazorla and Oxo on the flanks.
I think it would work better with Diaby in the middle and Cazorla on the wing, will be interesting to see how it shapes up tonight
That could work, but if we did it right, which means playing long balls. Have Giroud behind Walcott, so lob a long ball for Giroud to win and head down for Walcott to run onto with his pace, and go on goal.
Not necessarily a long ball game. Having a four man MF would also allow our fullbacks to get forward and /or support our wingers in attack
The Emirates is apparently incredibly empty. I don't have ESPN so can't comment, but 5Live just said they've never seen it this empty so close to Kick-Off.
