Haven't seen one yet so I'll start one, comment and change it or make ur own below. This is assuming that the following players are injured: Gibbs, Wilshere, Squillaci, Koscielny (haven't seen any info on him) That means that Djourou, Rosicky and Traore should return before the match. I then expect this line up: ---------------Szczesny--------------- --Sagna--Djourou--Vermaelen--Traore-- ------------Song----Ramsey----------- --Walcott-----Rosicky-------Gervinho-- ---------------v.Persie----------------- Subs: Fabianski, Miquel, Jenkinson, Frimpong, Lansbury, Arshavin, Chamakh Possible changes: Jenkinson for Traore Song for Djourou (Frimpong to DM) Arshavin for Walcott Tell me what you think below. {Edit: Nasri is leaving, subject to medical, so taken him out of squad.}
I hope this is right fella, looking at your XI just brings home to me that we are not missing that much player wise, one or two players would suffice.
only concern for me is Traore, but we really need a left footed player at left back. traore hasn't played for arsenal first team for a long time.
Wilshere trained at the end of last week (thu, fri, sat) and Arsene has said he may be available. can't see him in the training photos tho. there's also players i don't recognise in those photos!? Officially on Arsenal.com that terms have been agreed with Nasri subject to medical.
Nasri won't play, he has been sold (see Arsenal.com) Theo has to start, he terrorised them last week, we should go through ok so long as we don't get any defensive cock ups like saturday.
They have to score which means we should get a few opportunities to counter attack, one thing we're good at.
put chamberlain and theo on the wings so they can interchange and as they both have alot of pace, they should terrorise the defence on counter attacks and as theo showed last time. They do not like pace. i know it could inevertably a very important game to make your debut for arsenal in, but i think this would be the way to use him. i would have used ryo miyaichi but he is starting for the reserves tonight vs wigan so i dont see him playing 2 games in 2 nights.
We certainly need breakaway attacks to score the important away goal. That says wingers with guys in the middle going forward. However the defence must not get caught out, so needs to hang back as much as possible. The midfield will have to run and run.
---------------Szczesny--------------- --Sagna--Djourou--Vermaelen--Traore-- ------------Song----Frimpong----------- --Walcott-----Ramsey-------Gervinho-- ---------------v.Persie-----------------
---------------Szczesny--------------- --Sagna--Djourou--Vermaelen--Jenkinson-- ------------Song----Frimpong----------- --Walcott-----Ramsey-------OXO-- ---------------Gervinho----------------- Knowing our luck, RVP will get injured before the game, so this is my guess at a lineup. I think arsene will try gervinho centrally, he can play there if needed.
I've been spending weeks moaning about tightwad Wenger - but abandoning that theme:-- COME ON ARSENAL !!!!
---------------Szczesny--------------- --Sagna--Djourou--Vermaelen--Jenkinson/traore-- ------------Song----Frimpong----------- --gervinho-----Ramsey-------Arshavin-- ---------------walcott----------------- Use theo to keep them back abit, if they know he's up front with his speed they'll be hesitant to come forward to much, song and frimpong to both stay back win the ball, and set us off on a counter leaving us with basically 6 defenders, drop the line back abit and use songpong where our normal high line is
actually yeah, i think frimpong and song might start together, giving us more defensive stability. then if we fall behind we can resort to more attacking.
i would go for song and frimpong in midfield together to protect the defence and then let the attackers do their job. ---------------Szczesny--------------- --Sagna--Djourou--Vermaelen--Jenkinson-- ------------Song----Frimpong----------- --Walcott-----Arshavin-------Chamberlain- ---------------Van Persie----------------- I would also hand Alex Chamberlain his first start as he is quick and i would like to give him a chance to impress. I like Gervinho but he has failed impress me alot in his first few games. Play Arshavin more central as that is where he played his best and played there in the free role during the euro 2008 also i feel he would have more creativity for rvp, and the wingers. With the 3 defensive midfielders, it would mean that his lack of tracking back would not impact the team.
I would like to see Wenger go with: ---------------Szczesny--------------- --Sagna--Djourou--Vermaelen--Traore-- ------------Song----Ramsey----------- --Walcott-----Arshavin-------Gervinho-- ---------------v.Persie-----------------
I've been impressed with gervinho. He's worked hard, whilst getting little or no service from midfield, and he gave joey barton a slap, which is something most football fans want to do.
