Fun game. Sucks to lose. Aside from Willock's wondergoal we didn't create a thing after Ozil was subbed off.
Shocking substitutions at key moments. Ok, Sead looked injured but Emery totally unbalanced the team. DC was a very strange sub right after we took the lead. A good manager would have told him to sit back down and leave Torreira on
Sounds like I missed a treat was martinelli a striker? I wonder how well he’d do lw? Not shocked emery made shit subs
Ozil was the bit of class that we had been lacking for weeks. The missing link but what does Unai do? Doesn't want to admit that he was wrong and pulls Mesut after 60mins for Guendouzi, as a result all our possession in their final third stopped. I wanted Willock to go off instead, he had a hugely ineffective game. Ok he scored a screamer but he hasn't played well since the 3rd or 4th game of the season. To cap it off, DC was ready to come on at 4-4 to try and push for a winner but we scored the 5th as he was waiting on the line. Torreira was having a good game but got dragged off anyway because that was the call. Someone on the bench should have told Unai that the situation had changed and that was a stupid sub to make..... He is ********ing clueless... These are first team players but the difference in organisation between them and Liverpool's B team is night and day
I don't really care about the result. It's probably better for Arsenal to lose and not play in this meaningless cup. Ozil looked good and the game was entertaining. On to saturday.
I can't agree with you here, the result is a reflection of team and management performance. These were first team players against Liverpool's reserves. This goes a lot further than getting knocked out of a meaningless cup, surely you can see that
To be fair, the only Arsenal starters who have been getting regular Premier League starts in the positions they played on Wednesday were Kolasinac, who is about to lose his starting position to Tierney and an 18 year old Saka. Other than those two and Maitland Niles, whose starts have all been at right back, the remaining eight starters have a total of 7 premier league starts his season. So this was "Emery's cup team." Was it more experienced than the Liverpool team, absolutely, but most of that experience has had very little playing time this season, some, somewhat inexplicably.
I suppose so, it does have some value. But I guess it was more entertaining than a 1-0 to sheffield united
Overstatement on the strength of Liverpool's starting 11. But, I would agree our team was effectively the stronger. Martinelli looks the real deal, maybe we should let one of Auba or Laca go?
So if Liverpool withdraws from the tournament, would Arsenal advance? Any precedent for this? Not that we need the Carabao Cup in our lives (or another fixture in December) but I'm genuinely intrigued by this: "The draw was made hours after Jürgen Klopp threatened to withdraw Liverpool from the competition should the EFL and Premier League fail to find what he considers “a proper date” for their quarter-final. The quarter-final against Villa is scheduled for 17 December – one day before the European champions will play in Fifa’s Club World Cup tournament in Qatar. The Premier League and Football League have been in talks with clubs over switching a potential quarter-final involving Liverpool to the week commencing 6 January, currently scheduled for the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg. Klopp insists Liverpool will not play any further part in the Carabao Cup should the eventual date complicate an already demanding workload." LINK: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...draw-colchester-oxford-manchester-united-city