It’s a North London derby as we take on Sp*rs at the Emirates this afternoon.
We need three points to take us into the Interlull, here’s the team Unai Emery has picked to do that.
Arsenal: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Luiz, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Torreira, Guendouzi, Pepe, Lacazette, Aubameyang.
Subs: Martinez, Chambers, Willock, Ceballos, Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Nelson
Sp*rs: To follow
Subs:
xhaka at home is always solid ?
I dont rate Emery as a manger but I rate our players. Why not Ozil or Cab instead of Xhaka??
I suppose to be fair it’s a bit of a halfway house between setting up really defensive with two strikers and throwing caution to the wind with 2 DMs and 4 attackers
No point setting up defensively because we have conceded 2 at home. Xhaka is not Arsenal quality neither is Emery
Loads of down votes. Xhaka starts we are 2 down at home to spurs Xhaka has had a big part to play. Emery fault for selecting him tim and time gain. #EmeryOut
Errr, cos Ozil is shit and lazy. Agree about Ceballos tho.
What I see is a very strong team with this being a derby in mind
Yeah really fucking solid…..
Lets do this. COYG!
Midfield too defensive minded. Wish it was Ceballos instead of Guen
Agreed. Bit concerned about who is going to be serving the assists.
Kolasinac and AMN.
Pepe for auba, auba for Lacazette, and Lacazette for Pepe. The other four will all be from defensive errors.
Let’s front 3 be more open as midfield picks up the slack
Probably see that at half time.
Any streams
At least we have the full front three
Let’s do this. COYG
Good lineup! I hope he’s playing Torreira as the holding midfielder and xhaka a bit in front of him
Brave man dropping Ceballos
Fans are going to rip into him if we don’t win.
I thought he was going to drop Guendouzi.
But at least we have our front 3 from the start.
Ceballos was great in his first big game, right?
First big game was Liverpool.
C.O.Y.G!!!
Give it all, smash them spuds… and make the fans proud!
Even our bench is impressive
Not looked forward to NLD as much as this one #COYG
Hope Nacho can be there at the game.
Shame he is starting Xhaka, would much rather he didn’t start and Ozil or Ceballos play ahead of two holding midfielders. Our team and squad I Believe is now better than the scum. Emery is the weak link now. Still think we will win today if he doesn’t have Pepe and Aubameyang playing like wing backs.
Emery has done it again with that awesome midfield…what a wonderful coach we have
John Terry – is this you?
Fully agree, he shat his pants again, spuds have a more adventurous lineup than us with 4 attacking players vs our 3. Even sissoko as a CM is more attack minded than any of our three.
very attacking bench!
Emery is a big fan of Xhaka.
Im not a big fan of Emery or Xhaka
Me either – very negative manager…
He’s even a bigger fan of Guendouzi
His mom used to leave the house keys with him so you know he’s a good lad.
Holding on the bench! Nice.
You mean Chambers?
Oh yeah, please ignore my post…:-(
On the Spuds bench or what?
See above. It’s the stress sorry…:-)
Really thought we would go for it but I guess Emery will always be a conservative coach/person and never fully go for it.
That midfield is dead. Never creates anything. We’re gonna struggle to even get the ball to the front 3 as usual now that genius Emery has picked Tweedle D and Tweedle Dumb. I hope I’m wrong!
Been super confident all week about this match, I went and put 200 on an Arsenal win. Seen the lineups, and Son and Ericsen starting has made me bloody nervous.
I think it’s more like a diamond with laca at the tip.
Looks like it. Hoping Guendouzi will have the game of his life. I have no doubts about Torreira and Xhaka at home.
Spurs will look at our back line and be confident that they’ll get chances, our midfield 3 aren’t the most creative, we’ll be reliant on the efficiency of our front 3, and effectiveness of our full backs going forward today, can’t see much coming down the middle from us.
Who do we recon plays furthest forward in that midfield
Ugh, we never look that great with both Xhaka and Guendouzi on the pitch, they are so slow together. Other than that, not bad.
They make treacle look fast
That’s a lethal front three right there anywhere in Europe top flight football! But who would create and bring the ball to them without Ceballos or Ozil? I wish emery had rested Guendouzi.
Glad to see PAL start, just not a lot of creativity in midfield.
C’mon you Gunners! Let’s keep up the pace!
Yes.
Bit confused. Three up front. Plus three defensive midfielders.
Who’s pulling the strings in midfield?
Who’s bridging the gap between defensive midfield and our front three?
Creative midfield?
Four at the back I understand. Just not what’s in front of them.
Emery always likes to throw in at least one surprise to annoy the fans. This week it’s put 4 creative midfielders on the bench
About bloody time!! COYG
Emery’s hard on for Xhaka aside, and the big worry that is a back four with Kolasinac, Sokratis and David Luiz, a solid enough lineup. We’ll be sure to concede a few but you’d back us to score 3 too.
Big game needed from Guendouzi.
Sp*rs have a very mobile, athletic midfield. Who in our midfield picks up the ball and drives forward with Ceballos and Willock benched?
Ceballos will be on at half time if we’re losing.
So, now Nelson is keeping Saka out of the squad. The competition is real yo! Great move by both parties in the Iwobi sale. Happy for him as well. It’s still early days but you starting well is never a bad thing.
How the fuck can he start Guendouzi ahead of Ceballos and even worse, Willock? Idiot!
Unleash the dragon, I meant the PAL!!!
xhaka,, torreira..nd guendozi???
who is gonna pass the ball forward
David Luix ?
Join the discussion… xhaka torreira nd guendozi??
who is gonna pass the ball forward
Glad about the front 3, glad torreira’s in but a bit gutted Willock not starting. Need his energy in midfield.
Xhaka to give away the ball while we are dominating the game and concede a goal on the counter attack. How is he still not sold yet ? He is the weakest link in this line up.
this is the lineup i wanted to see vs liverpool, 3 more defensive minded mids to let the front 3 do their stuff.
hopefully ceballos, willock and ozil can come on to do some stuff later on.
The midfield lacks creativity
Don’t see that midfield complimenting what’s ahead of it. Hope we don’t get bogged down with our midfielders taking up same spaces.
Ozil has it made. Making tons of money not having to play. Oh, and we are not trading him. Why would you play him in a big game?
Looks like we’re “doing a Liverpool”, 3 solid and somewhat defensive midfielders supporting an aggressively attacking front 3. Surprised Ceballos isn’t starting but let’s see what they can do!
Solid midfielders ?
Great front line but the amateur defence has once again let us down.
Arsenal’s defence is so poor – it is beyond bad and Luiz was never going to be the answer.
Its going to ruin our season once again…
Judging by the first 15 minutes we need to take off Xhaka for a creative link up midfielder and chambers should be playing instead of Luiz!!! I now have a bad feeling about this match ?
Holding can’t come back soon enough
Seriously, why do you believe Holding is our savior? He played less than 15 games last season and yes he was impressive, but our defense was still shit!! Before last season, he was a backup!! He’s still only 22 or 23. Why do you seriously believe that our defensive problems are down to individuals players and not the coaching? Our defense has been shit regardless of personnel since last season Our problems start straight from the midfield. How do you play 3 defensive mids and still have so much space between them? Xhaka is NOT a DM. Play him in… Read more »
He (or anyone coming into this team) is better than the two spanners currently masquerading as centre backs.
Anyone can improve this Arsenal defence. Anyone.
I don’t… That’s the joke.
Could have been 2-0 down . Arsenal are making it easy for spurs with their laborious build up.They take an age to get going.
Where was the marking when the Dane scored with acres of space?
The gunners need to speed up the attack and stop the slow build up like Wenger.If they aint careful another goal will be curtains.
This is what happens when you go up against a top four team.
Especially when you have a manager who can never seem to get the tactics right.
Xhaka starting every game?
No creative central midfielder when playing at home?
Far too negative…
And now we are wo down
GAME FUCKING OVER !!!!!!!!!!
EMERY OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!
XHAKA you fucking spastic CUNT !!!!!!!!
EMERY OUT !!!!!!!!!
Xhaka is a complete and utter liability.
We could spend 400 million on the forward line but until we learn to defend we will remaim a joke
I guess I was among the strongest of Xhaka supporters. From a supporter’s point of view , may be he was trying to make the team feel more embarrassed by going 2 down against this fuckkng spuds..and then they wake up, score a goal just before the break like Sagna did a couple of years back…and it kinda worked..
Seriously.. What the fuck was he thinking..
Xhaka better not play another game for arsenal, he is truly awful, too slow and useless
Surely there are no more Xhaxa defenders left on here. I am done with him fucking up my week.
*Xhaka. Shouldn’t have tried to spell it. Stunned cunt is easier to spell and everyone still wouldn’ve known who I was referring to.