Rotation a key focus as Sporting arrive in town

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IT’S WELBZ TIME

Come on, I know this is an Arsenal blog, but how can we not talk about that Ronaldo goal against United last night?

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Strike

I don’t even know how you get to that level of spacial awareness where you can sense a ball coming over the shoulder of a defender. That strike. That timing. Wow wow wow wow!

Chezzer taking abuse for his part in the Juve capitulation, but fear not, there’s a rabid group of fanboys who still can’t let the anger of his departure die.

Juve didn’t deserve to lose against a goal like that. Wasn’t it hilarious to watch Jose after the game? Man lost his mind over that win. It’s so funny to see him celebrating a group stage win like he’s just won the whole thing. Bit like Liverpool doing a bow against WBA.

United getting into a gear is a worry, they have a lot of talent in that squad and could prove a bother at the backend of the season if we hit a trouble patch. Let’s hope it’s up and down all year for them.

Tonight, we face Sporting in the competition everyone wants to face off in… The Europa League. The real deal. The gateway to the Champions League. Emery is pumped about qualifying.

“It’s a very important match because if we win we’re first in the group – that’s our clear target,”

“This competition is very important for us. It’s one way to win a title and get into the Champions League next year.

“We want to continue to improve and to continue with the players taking responsibility and confidence. I want to continue at the Emirates with our supporters with the same spirit as in the matches against Blackpool, Leicester and Liverpool.”

This competition is his bread and butter. Sporting are the toughest team in our group, so a good performance this evening will make it easier for us with our next two games.

The manager has a fine balance to meet, he has to make sure his team is strong enough to win, but he doesn’t want to overstretch them and have tired legs as against a more rested Wolves at the weekend. I expect a medium amount of rotation today, with a very strong bench.

Right, short post today because I work for a living you bums. x

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Left testicle

It seemed his team mates were getting frustrated with Ramsey last night.

Holding on to the ball too long – slowing us down and making us predictable. That and the unnecessary flicks and back heels.

Expensive, luxury player that doesn’t fit in with our style of play. Yes, we actually have a style of play now!

Pierre

It may sound stupid but our defensive injuries have affected our attacking play but coincidentally have helped us defensively. Monreal /Kolasinac getting injured plus bellerins injury has meant we have had to play xhaka and lichsteiner as full backs … They are not as willing to overlap as frequently as monreal/ Kolasinac and Bellerin so we have lost part of our attacking options . However , it also has meant that we have not had so many gaps in our defensive channels as the full backs are not getting caught high up the pitch. Once we have Monreal and Bellerin… Read more »

raptora

I think that the better defensive play compared to the start of the season, is based on the players and manager spending more time together, knowing what it’s required to do better than in the beginning where everything was still very new and unnatural. We’re not the finished article so I expect progress to continue in every line, structure and play. We are on a good path. Only thing we need is luck for our players to not get injured. Chelsea in 2016/17 had extremely little amount of injuries. I don’t know how it happened but we need this kind… Read more »

Joe

Whoever kidnaped pierre and using his account to post

Thank you