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Habesha Gooner's avatar

Partey and Ben White trained. The amount of people crying on here because Arteta was forced to play him at RB on Saturday was hilarious.

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Positive Pete's avatar

As you know by now Habesha,bedwetting is par for the course on here.

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raptora's avatar

Starting Partey was a bad decision. I won't change my opinion on that.

Forced or not, if we're moving a DM to RB, surely we could have figured something out from the available players.

Hab is even the biggest moaner about Partey at RB and how we've suffered for it, now it turns out there is never another way?

Yes, our RBs were injured, so what? It's not like Partey is a RB either.

The Arteta outs think I'm supportive of every Arteta decision. Except I'm not. Another proof of that.

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jwl's avatar

That is good news, it's frustrating that Cala and Jorgi did not train today. It shocking how much of the season Cala has missed due to injuries, we were discussing this potential issue here last summer, but Arsenal decided to go ahead with purchase anyways.

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Guns of SF's avatar

Mike likes him a lot. stalkerish

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cescisgod's avatar

Cala makes Tierney look like an ironman

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Tom Wojtyga's avatar

Assuming we advance to the semis and the тАШneedтАЩ arises again do you play Partey at RB vs Ipswich away on the 20th nine days before first leg vs PSG?

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Habesha Gooner's avatar

No, White is fit today. So he will play, like he would have against Brentford.

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Tom Wojtyga's avatar

You dodged the question.

Well done.

IтАЩd play the tea lady at RB in the league before Partey in the run up to semis vs PSG.

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Positive Pete's avatar

Leave тАШ Doris тАШ out of this Tom.Shes busy either the packed lunches for Madrid.

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Positive Pete's avatar

Are you trying to start a riot Tom? Cough,cough.

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Bob's avatar

I think that Partey should play RB against Ipswich if only for the benefit of stoking the stream action on here!

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Tom Wojtyga's avatar

If that happened and he pulled a hemi this site would explode.

Meanwhile Habesha would claim a win stating we always needed a more durable Partey option.

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Bob's avatar

'Pulling a hemi' sounds a bit rude!

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raptora's avatar

And if he hadn't played at RB, or at all, what's the worst that could have happened? A loss by a goal or two to Brentford? A single point dropped on the table? The end of the world I assume.

Meanwhile, one of our most important players that has played way more football this season than in his recent seasons and is in his 30s, was that close to getting injured and missing our most important game in almost 20 years. Fk me Hab, you were right!

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Habesha Gooner's avatar

I was right. You just complained about a whole bunch of nothing. A bunch of "if's" that didn't happen. Partey was fine. He didn't play against Everton the previous week.

And the fact that you think losing to Brentford at home didn't matter is all I need to know about your bad opinions. Every game matters. Some less than others. But it still does. You can rotate but you can't play random kids that aren't ready or players that can't do the job in those positions. The players that come in have to be of the required level to do it.

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Dyznyesky's avatar

ItтАЩs extremely poor risk management and very, very naive. I could easily see fan sentiment turning against Arteta if Partey had been injured and unavailable for Madrid, and we lost the tie.

Mikel is playing with fire.

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Habesha Gooner's avatar

risk management

He didn't play the previous week. He rested him for the most important home game and we won 3 nil. He wouldn't have played him against Brentford either had Ben White been available.

The risk was play a fit partey or a struggling timber.

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Positive Pete's avatar

Or the option of another formation that didnтАЩt utilise either Partey or Timber? Possible or not ,I donтАЩt know ?If it was.It was an unnecessary risk lets face it.

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Habesha Gooner's avatar

This is the first argument that has been decent so far. A formation change might actually work. You would need to play Zinchenko LWB and may be Sterling as RWB to pull it off last saturday.

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raptora's avatar

Hmmm, so we're back to my suggestion about Sterling. Took you a few days.

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Habesha Gooner's avatar

Nah, you said play him at RB in a back 4.

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