One thing that was positive from tonight was that some of the senior players got a good rest. The ones who featured will be on the bench on Saturday. Only Mertesacker will start against the Swans I feel.
You my friend are an idiot. There's no two ways about it. And it takes a real small man with a case of small-penis syndrome to try and prove his point via one grammatical error on an online forum.
I'm wondering if we should rest Mert for Saturday, because he played 2 hours tonight, he'll play the full 90 on Saturday, and then the full 90 against Napoli on Tuesday as well. I know he's in good shape for a big man, but even so, we can't risk him getting injured for Napoli. We could do with some defensive order, and he's our leader at the back.
I don't know how many headed clearances Mert is getting per game lately but, without him, we'd probably concede a hat-full from corners and crosses.
Akpom, Gnarby, and Eisfeld look like they have good potential, Akpom looked the best out of them. Not convinced on Ryo, he's done **** all when coming on as a sub, and tonight in the starting team he didn't really do much, and when he was doing things, it was usually something bad. As for Bendtner, what else can you say, yeah he had an assist, but as usual when it came to him doing his job, he just ****s up...We can't consider ourselves serious contenders with him as a striker back up, you'd have to be a FOOL to rely on him as a back up striker.
Here's hoping that January brings about a proper striker - one to challenge or even usurp Giroud. Seeing as Wenger was trying to get rid of Bendtner, I guess retaining him was more out of desperation than anything else.
I don't know what's wrong with him, his new look even looks ****ing annoying, everything about him is annoying...At least if he's not going to be scoring or making chances, he should put in some fight, the guy is bad in air duals, bad in pressing or pressuring to get the ball back, it's the same usual lazy **** effort.
I can't imagine where his head is these days. I can only assume any ability he has is being clouded by his mental state, which can't be fantastic considering the club has spent the last few years trying to get rid of him (for good reason). He has, in the past, shown glimpses of being useful but he seems in no position to show it right now. Roll on January, or some miraculous rise from Akpom
Eisfeld could get a role playing the invisible man, was non existent tonight, apart from the goal. Totally anonymous.
Speaking of strikers, Suarez looked quite good for his first game, oh how lovely it would've been to have had him, :-(. Poor Suarez, no European football, and now no Capital One Cup football. :-D.
He would have been a stunning signing, no doubting it. Liverpool will do well to keep him beyond this season, but if tonight it anything to go by he's still willing to work hard for them.
Sounds like we were ****, but at least we got through. Our squad depth is clearly not good enough, and because of that I can't see how we are going to get past Chelsea. The run of games we have after we play Chelsea are the following, (Liverpool,Dortmund and Man Utd). So I can't see Wenger playing any of the first team players. As mentioned above, Chelsea's second team include the likes of Mata,Ba,De Bryune and co.
Hopefully by the time we play Chelsea, Cazorla and Walcott will be back, gives more room for rotating players in the cup.
You'd think the squad is too thin to play a full strength team for each of those matches, which means that at least one has to take a back seat, which would naturally be the Chelsea game. Getting ****ed at home in the cup would obviously be a bad - and potentially quite damaging - thing, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility considering the strengths of each respective second string. I hate the League Cup
Even then, who is going to playing upfront? Against teams like that you need clinical forwards. Maybe we can pack the bench with first team players and hope that the reserves keep it tight.
