When: Sunday November 11, 11:30 EST Where: Emirates Stadium TV: NBC gold (I think) The unbeaten run continues. We welcome a tricky opponent to the Emirates this Sunday. While we are favorites, I can see us having a little trouble with this lot. I assume Bellarin, laca, ozil, xhaka, torriera, Leno are back in. Not sure about the rest of defense and who he will start out wide.
Just checked Arsenal.com's official team news: IFFY FOR SUNDAY: - Lichsteiner - Monreal BACK SOON-ISH: - El Neny - Mavropanos? - Koscielny? OUT: - Danny So perhaps the good news in all this is that Bellerin, Sokratis, Holding & Mustafi all seem fit to be in our squad. AMN too. So if one of those iffy hammies recovers quickly (Nacho or Stephan) then we could still have a very strong back line. Phew. p.s. Here's our season: LLWWWWWWWWWWWDWDD. Not too shabby!
I just realized we were on at the same time as the Manc derby. What idiot set these schedules. So tomorrow we’ve got no interesting games until the palace spuds match, but Sunday two big fixtures at the same time??? Preceded by Chelsea and pool?? Why not move pool to Saturday and then play us early and the mancs later. Is the Sunday tv slot that much more valuable?
⏰ An hour to go until #ARSWOL......so here's how we line up this afternoon 👇 pic.twitter.com/XOEaoG08bT— Arsenal (@Arsenal) November 11, 2018
Another strong line-up. No surprises, including Kola in as LB. 19Leno 2Bellerín 16Holding 20Mustafi 31Kolasinac 11Torreira 34Xhaka 17Iwobi 10Özil 14Aubameyang 9Lacazette Substitutes 1Cech 5Papastathopoulos 7Mkhitaryan 8Ramsey 15Maitland-Niles 29Guendouzi 49Nketiah Edit: Sorry for the duplication... didn't see that someone already posted this. My browser does a weird thing where the graphics at the top of embedded tweets don't show up immediately... just the text below.
Fantastic build-up play there, but then their defender makes an amazing save on a point blank shot by Laca. Then on the counter they force Leno into an equally good save. Wow, almost as exciting as that 13 seconds at Anfield earlier today. Luckily no goal was scored on the break here. COME ON, TURN THIS AROUND BOYS!
The way we're playing in their half, it looks like only a matter of time until we score. I'm confident. But can we keep them from adding to their tally? that is the question I cannot answer.
Yeah, but I've been wondering for a while if Emery thinks Torreira+Khaka offers better balance than Guen+Xhaka. And he seems to want Xhaka in there, so...
The problem is Kolasinic, slow, misleading pass to Xhaka. You can see the team doesn't trust him. And, just generally playing like garbage.
Just like the Arsenal of old? Good, crisp one-touch passing. 74% possession. 86% accuracy. 3 corners. 0 shots on goal. And the all important stat: 0-1 scoreline. We can only hope that our trend to improve in 2T holds true today.
And yet if it wasn't for him we'd arguably be 0-0 at HT. He screwed up twice on their goal: once by strangely deciding to let a pass go by him when it was well within his reach, and then being a split-second late on his attempt to prevent the ball from reaching their attacker... thus the OG. Edit: Fixed the above upon rewatching it. Maybe this was one of his 12 incidents of lost possession in the half?